New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-02
and, with flashing eyes, she cries:
sss Who viii come with mep Who
win rescue Carl Emilet''

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repeats her cry, dozen young fellows
leap forward. In 8 moment, six Of
them are in the boat, and fl their
| places.
We will 60, Nicholina, . they say;
''but you must stay here!''
Nicholina's answer is to seize an
oar, sprang to the stern, shove the boat
of, and begin to pull. The young men
are quick to follow her irresistible ex-
ample, and the boat shoots out Of the
sheltered harb0r into the angry waves,
on whose crests are tossing sharp frag-
ments Of ice, which, by striking one
against the other, add to the tnmult Of
the wind and waves.
The people on the shore watch the
boat as at one moment it mounts sea
and again sinks away into the trough,
and, for an instant, is lost to view. But
steadily the distance between it and the
shore widens, though it does not 90
length without danger of being crushed
by the tumbling ice.
The men try to persuade Nicholina
to abandon her oar, but she will not.
brought you here, and while I
share the danger I will share the Ia
DOT, IS ner reply.
An anxious hour passes, and the
boat disappears behind an island.
A half hour more and it is seen
dancing between that island and an
other further up to windward. Behind
this it vanishes again, and then the
people say: ''The boat is surely lost
with all on board. Nicholina must
have been mad.''
But the boat is not lost, only it can
not be seen from shore. Beyond the
second island it is headed toward the
little iceberg where Nicholina first saw
the dark object which she took for
Carl Emile. But she does not see any
dark object now. Perhaps it is the mo-
ton of the boat which is unfavOrable to
observation.
The water is very angry, and, what
with the fury of the wind and waves,
the boat often makes no Roadway for
minutes at time. "Give way, men!
pull for life" cries Nicholina. Give
way! give way!'' they shout in chorus
after her, and the boat creeps on.
They come among loose ice which
strikes their oars, and they fall back;
But .Give way!'' the brave girl shouts
again, 'Give way!' is the responsive
echo, and again the boat moves on.
They are among the boiling surf of
the reef and are almost overwhelmed,
but "give way'' again, and they are
safe from that danger, and nearing the
stiller waters in the lee of the iceberg
for which they steer. They reach that
water, and make more rapid Roadway;
they reach the berg, and are dashed
against it, but the boat is not broken.
Nicholina has dropped her oar, she has
stood up In the bow, her long black
hair flying in the winds, she has one
foot upon the gunwale, and before the
come she has leaped upon the ice.
/ She looks about her, but does not
discover the object of her search. Her
heart sinks within her. She goes a lit
tie to the left, and there lie two mo-
tionless figures locked in each others
arms. The younger is without coat.
He has taken it off and wrapped it
about the other. They are partly shell
tered from the wind, but only poorly
from the surf. The girl seizes the
younger mans hand, crying with q
voice of agony: Carl! Carl Emiler'
The eyes of the young man open
slightly; he moves a little, but he can
not speak. 1t is joy enough for Mich
DINA to know that he lives. Peter
gives no sign, but she makes sure that
his heart beats and she is thankful. In
the shelter of the iceberg they are safe
~ carried to the boat, and it starts on
its perilous journey back to Upernavik.
The whole village is assembled on the
hill watching for the temperance of
the boat, and great shout of joy goes
up as it is seen once more tossing on
the waves between the islands. It
comes along steadily and safely, and
now they can count the figures of those
in it. There are but seven.
calais" they cry, Nicholina was
wrong. They have not found Carl
Emile or Peter!''
Nicholina relieves their minds BY cry
ing out: ave have found them. They
are here. They are alive" And then the
people cheer. The men are carried to
their homes: the doctor comes and finds
they are not frozen, only numbed. The
danger Of reaction is great, but with
careful nursing they both revive. and
are found not to have suffered perma-
nent harm.
Within week, Carl Emile is about
as we'll and strong as ever; but it is full
" month before Peter is himself
again, and it is doubtful if he will ever
be quite the same strong man he was.
Carl's first thoughts were of his
mother and brothers and sisters at Pc
verick. But tho ice is completely bro
ken up, and boat could not for many
days be either pulled through it or
dragged over it. Those were days of
agony to Carl. But at length Peverick
was reached, and all was we'll. Carts
mother had given him and her husband
up for lost from the moment she saw
them being carried out to sea on the
iceberg. 1t was fortunate that those
two seals, which Carts brother brought
to camp, were shot by the two hunters
drifting away upon the iceberg, for
otherwise the whole family must have
starved.
All are reunited and happy at Uper-
navik, and the pretty Nicholina is the
heroine Of the village. The people cam
not say too much in praise of her cour-
age and devotion. At last, Carl is well
again and able to 60 out, looking not
80 much the worse for his adventure.
1t is needless to say to whose house
he went as soon as he did get out, or to
narrate what he said to her or what
she said to him. It is sufficient that
you should know that not many days
elapsed before there was grand we'd
ding in Upernavik, aud that hand
somer, happier couple never lived in
Greenland, nor indeed anywhere. than
Carl and his brave, black-eyed Nicho-
lima. DR.. Isaac I. Hayes, IN st. NicA-
olGs.
yirginia's whipping Post.
''AUsTN MITCHELL, fasten the pris-
Oner," said the officer to colored in
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