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The evening before the departure, just as they were about to take supper, Penellan was breaking up some empty casks for firewood, when he was suddenly suffocated by a thick smoke. At the same instant the snow-house was shaken as if by an earthquake. The party uttered a cry of terror, and Penellan hurried outside. It was entirely dark.
Kadlu's eye rolled round the skin-lined snow-house till it fell on fourteen-year-old Kotuko sitting on the sleeping-bench, making a button out of walrus ivory. "Name him for me," said Kotuko, with a grin. "I shall need him one day."
"Yes," said Mary Anna, "I remember I went in one cold, windy day, and I found you boys all snugly stowed in your snow-house, warm and comfortable, by a good blazing fire." "Once we made some candy in our snow-house," said David. "Did you?" said Caleb.
Now she leaped to Maida’s side and pretended to beat her. “Stop that!” a voice called. Startled, the little girls looked up. Billy stood in the doorway. “I’ve come over to make a snow-house,” he explained. “Oh, Billy, what things you do think of!” Maida exclaimed. “Wait till I get Arthur and Dicky!”
My mother's notes of every-day life proceed: January 2. This morning, one cloud in the east looked like a goldfish close to the horizon. I began to build a snow-house with the children, and shoveled paths. 5th. I walked out in the splendid sunset with the children, to meet papa. I told them, on the way, the story of Genevieve. 10th.
Just what her mother intended to add Charlotte never knew, for a wild shriek from the yard made her rush to the window in terror. At first she could not tell what had happened. Then she realized that Molly was dancing wildly around wringing her hands, that Irving's startled face and sturdy shoulders were emerging from the ruins of the snow-house, and that no one else was in sight.
They replied they should be glad of it, if they had a kettle to boil the flesh in; but as that was not the case, they must suffer hunger, for they could not even yet eat dogs' flesh in its raw state. The missionaries now remained in the snow-house, and every day endeavoured to boil so much water over their lamp as might serve them for two dishes of coffee a piece.
I knew that if all had gone well I should be a man high up in the Company, and here I was, living like a dog in the porch of the world, sometimes without other food for months than frozen fish; and for two years I was in a place where we had no fire, lived in a snow-house, with only blubber to eat. And so year after year, no word!" "The mail came once every year from the world?"
The size and strength of the ice was such that it afforded them the means of building a snow-house upon it, in which they took shelter during the night, and in rainy weather. They had caught eight seals on the day of their departure, which afforded them nourishment, though for want of fuel they could make no fire, but ate the meat raw and drank the blood.
"That's a great mistake," said Dwight; "we have fine times in the winter." "Why, what can you do?" "O, a great many things; last winter we dug out a house in a great snow-drift under the rocks, and played in it a good deal." "But it must be very cold in a snow-house," said Caleb. "O, we had a fire." "A fire?" said Caleb.
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