The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-09-18
aud thsn tha.t .trange. moaning hewll

And then that strange; moaning how'll
Wilder than ever it rose above tho din of
the gale ,..
"our doom is sealed God have m,rcy on
my soull" shieked the terrified captain.
Nearer every moment the weird. yhiU
form Of the frozen dog drew to the shib
The little particle Of ice clinging 10 the
body glittered in the lurid lanterns light
like the eyes Of lnuYmerable spirits,
VgiHly was the helm put hard down
II was too late.
Ere the vessel could come up she struck Z
protruding edge of the berg.
There was crash like thunderbol' every
timber shocs, and the water was heard n T.
lug ito the hold.
| IIeeling oyer as she was borne forward By
a sea, the ship was swept like ligh, ming past
\ the fatal mass Of ice she bpd struck anu tho
frozen dog disappeared in The darkness as.
| tern.
81 knew no good would come of our seeing
that vision" said the old sailor who had pre-.
yiOusly prophesed misfortune to the shir;
at was Inc frozen hound which lured our
craft to her destruction"
Every effort was vainly made 10 stop up
the rent in her timbers.
Two hours later she gave her last plunge,
leaving her occupants in the four whsIeb',ats
which they had lashed together.
| Thus they were tossed about until dawn
when the gale abated, ,,l g., ,.1
Soon after e vessel was seen and signaled!
1t proved to be the Russian schooner, eon.
tanning the girl Liska, whom Henry had
| loved.
The cqstaways being picked up, the cap
tain and his wife, were shown 10 the cabir.
A handsome youth, leading a beautiful
| girl by the hand came forward to meet them.
NITanrv ~ hO,rt H.
captains wife, folding him in her arms.
"saved God be praised |" shouted the
skipper, in wild joy. u.s.. san. .
1t was, indeed, their missing SON Henry
Burton.
On being left ashore, he had wandered of
a short distance, had lost his way among the
ice-hummocks, but was fortunate enough VI
fall in with hunting party from the RUS
sian schooner, anchored in a concealed bay
far beyond.
These menn holbed him look for bis ding;
which he had tied upon an ice-cake by the
shOte before he went into the interiot, ID.
tending coon TO return. The search was
vain one, as Henry confused by having boen
lost, could not tell on which part of the shore
he had left the animal. He accompanied
the Russians to the schooner, which sailed
the next day in search Of the whaler.
1t was now evident that the ice cake on
which the boy had tied the hound got de-
tacbed from the shore and drfted of, Subj
sequently the animal must have succeeded
in gnawing away the rope by which it was
secured, and in getting upon tho berg on
which il was frozen. u,,p '.. ~
This berg was again fallen in with on the
day after the castaways were picked up. :.
Captain Burton and his son repaired thith.
er in boat with crew.
, They climbed to the side Of the dog,whieh.
they found frozen es stiff as an iron bar,
with the lower part Of its body wedged in
rift. ,,n 90. i
, The moaning howl which had been. heard
and had seemed TO come from the dead log ,
was now accounted for. Not foot from the
body was a long, funnel-shaped hollow in
Q the ice, into which the wind, finding en-
| trance, produced the noise ,Ishich had 81 ter
: rifed the superstitious crew. "a
Sadly the poor animals form was sunk TO
the bottom of the, SEQ by his loving master,
t alter which the. party returned to the ship
Asst was nov late in the season, she was
headed away from the, dreary northern ocean
. for San Francisco, her destined. port.
g She arrived there in due time, when, Hen.
ry was united in marriage to- the pretty Rus
sian girl, Liska, his father no lChger oppos-
ing the match. --