Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-09-15
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Deane.
/ Notlong after, as the two boys were
Lstanding on deck, their attention was
|suddenly attracted to a party of sail
ors who were being lowered over the
side of the ship. Eager with the nov
/ city: of their surroundings, and vide
awake to each new phase of the scene,
the boys rushed quickly to the side of
the steamer, where they perceived two
boats, manned with sailors, who were
armed with pickaxes and hatchets,
bobbing up and down on the waves.
| "What are they going to do?" asked
Harry, curiously, of a good-natured
looking tar, who was hauling up long
rope while calling: STEADY as we go,
now!" in sort of a sing-song sailor
fashion, that quite won the boys adj
miration. .E$tsjE%. &f& =
"There's a fair wind aft tonight and
We'll soon be under sailing orders, so
the men are off to cut ice down the
bay" replied the man.
| For some time the lads stood and
watched the sailors slide up and down
the rope, until at length Harry cried:
"Come, Dane, let's swing down and go
with the sailors to see the fun"
! ''The professor might object and
then there would be a row." replied
Dane, obviously, although as much in
clined to see the sport as his friend.
ooh, Uncle Dick won't care. We
can't come to grief, and he's too busy
| talking with the senator to mind what
we are up to-" 4 Z / H.. ID
'""AH right! It's co." called out
Harry moment later, as he rejoined
his companion. "Uncle Dicks head is
buried in the clouds, and he's walking
on air. I don't believe he knew what
I was talking about, but he said we
could CO." .~..... ~ -
| Just before the boat dropped down
the bay dark figure was SCENT slide
swiftly down the rope, and, with a
hasty jump, land in the foremost boat.
It was Dane, who, moment later, saw
Harry come flying down behind him
amid the loud hurrahs of the sailors,
and give quick leap into the nearest
boat, the one in the rear. But it was
too late for Harry to rectify his mis-
take, for the first boat had already
swung clear of her moorings, and with
dip of the oars was skimming lightly
over the water to the sides of the bay.
A row Of couple of miles brought
the boat into a small cove, where sew
eral immense bodies of ice had
grouped themselves, apparently, into a
solid mass. Steering to a goodsized
| rock of ice more free of dirt and stones
than it's fellows, the men cleared off
the upper crust of snow that covered
it., and then began to chip off big,
sparkling blocks, which were quickly
landed in the bottom of the boat. For
some time Dane stood silently watch
ing the men, but presently he grabbed
a lpickax and set to work as hard as
any of the sailors. s
! Suddenly loud boom sounded in his
ear, followed by terrible roaring
noise; he heard a sailor give sharp
cry and looked up just in time to see
huge iceberg that had suddenly
broken from a mass of bergs nearby,
bearing down upon them with light
ming like speed. Mortified, Dane stared
wildly about him, realizing that in a
seconds time their little boat would
be swamped, laden as she was with
stupendous blocks of ice. r
Another moment and the iceberg
had struck the boat, but Simultaneous
ly with the crash of shivering timber
Dane made a flying leap and landed in
a bed of snow on top of the moving
mass. But the bed of snow proved to
be 1 hard crust of ice, and a second
later the boy felt himself slipping off;
1 hisafeet were already touching the
! water, when, with quick movement,
/ he grasped a spar of ice that pro-
/ truded above his head With snap it
parted in his hand, and Dane felt that
his end had come. With heart beat
ing like sledge hammer, and his
breath coming In heavy gasps, he fran
tically attempted to clutch a Jagged
rift of ice at his side.
Thank God! This time he succeeded,
for the ice held firm, and then slowly,
step by step, he finally managed to Sc
cure a firm foothold on the foating
Iceberg. 81 4::ssa-.zs:s5saa S?9
Painting and shivering, for he had
been deluged with showery spray
from the overturned boat, he gazed
about him, and perceived he was al
most Embedded behind a huge snow
bank that lowered on top%of the ice
berg, completely cutting off his view
of the capsized boat, and the steamer
in the distance beyond.
Frightened by his position, he ut
tered a loud shout, but in the booming
Of the icebergs his cry was lost. He
then attempted to climb to the top: Of
! the snowbank, but it was slippery