Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
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T ~ NE day Jack and his sister Sarah
took a rowboat and started out
TO find desert island. They
~ rowed and drifted all the morn
ing till at last they saw some
thing sparkling like a big diamond away
off on the edge of the sea.
Lets go and see what 1t is. said JACK
So they turned their boat and rowed
toward it.
Now this sparkling thing was really an
iceberg. and it was drifting toward JACK
and Sarah twice as fast as they were
rowing toward it so that when they
thought they were lopg way on they
ran crash into the iceberg and smashed
a great hole in their boat.
When the Water rushed in at the hole
they were very much frightened and they
wished they had been good children ana
had stayed home and played nicely. But
it was no time for wishing, so they
jumped out onto the iceberg AS quickly
as they could and pulled their boat up
after them.
AT one side of the iceberg Jack brushed
the snow away and made sliding pond.
the most beautiful siding pond you ever
saw. And they slid on the sliding pond
and played in the snow till they began to
get hungry.
"Oh. dear" said Sarah. 81 wish we had
brought something to eat. 1t must be
almost lunch time
do you think I'd start out to find a
desertsland without taking anything to
eat?" asked Jack scornfully. There are
dozen potatoes. half a chocolate cake,
three jars of strawberry preserves and a
box of matches in the locker of the boat.
ooh goodyr' cried Sarah. Lets build
a fire out of the pieces Of the boat and
cook the potatoes
Yes lets.' said Jack. and he dragged
the wreck of the boat into little cave
in the iceberg and made fire, while
Sarah got out the cake and opened one
of the jars of strawberry preserve. When
the fire was ready they put in the po-
tatOeS. .
Now" said Jack. while we are wait
ing let's begin on the jam and cake. I've
always thought it would be much nicer 10
eat dessert first.
So they did. and it was lovely! Ever
so much nicer than the regular way:
"Oh. Jack!' she cried, there's great
big elephant frozen in the ice and our fire
has nearly thawed him out. There's only
a little thin sheet of ice left. What shall
we do?"
Run replied Jack promptly, ana he
seized his sisters hand and began drag
ging her after him up the high hill.
In a. minute or so they heard tinkling
sound as if some one. had broken a pane
of glass: it was really the thin sheet of
ice. you know-and out Of the cave lum-
hered a great big. huge. woolly elephant;
he was woody all over just like a sheep.
He walked slowly out into the light. He
had been frozen for SO many thousand
years that his mind hadn't quite thawed
out yet and he couldn't remember where
he was or what his name was or any
thing All at once he saw Jack and
Sarah. and he rushed toward them -four
fishing his trunk in the air and trumpet
ing loudly.
Jacks sliding pond was right in the way,
but he had never seen sliding pond
before and he ran right on it so fast that
he couldn't stop himself and he Slid
right off the iceberg into the water with
the biggest kind of a splash.
He made a big hole in the sea where
he fell in and the water around him
splattered way up into the air as high
as the top of the iceberg. Soon he came
to the surface putting, and shaking the
long woolly hair ont of his eyes. lie
pulled himself heavily up on the iceberg.
Then he shook himself like d dog, and
stood still in the sun to dry, and to con-
slider what he had better do next.
AS the children watched him swaying