Part 7 (1/2)
”Good-bye, Donald,” he called
When the pan touched the other side Job North stepped aboard without a word He was a heavy reat body on the ice-cake, the difficulty of return was enormously increased, as Donald had foreseen
The pan was overweighted Tiain it nearly shook itself free of its load and rose to the surface North was near the centre, plying his gaff with difficulty, but Donald was on the extrereat as it had been at first, and the waves were running high, and it was dark
They made way slowly The pan often wavered beneath the, and he was not afraid Then cae--when North struck his gaff too deep into the water He lost his balance, struggled to regain it, failed--and fell off Before Donald ake to the danger, the edge of the pan sank under him, and he, too, toppled off
Donald had learned to swih in the water, looking for hiht, Donald?” said his father
”Yes, sir”
”Can you reach the ice alone?”
”Yes, sir,” said Donald, quietly
Alexander Bludd and Bill Stevens helped thee, and they were home by the kitchen fire in half an hour
”'Twas bravely done, b'y,” said Job
So Donald North learned that perils feared are e of the finest kind, in the following days of adventure, now close upon hi, Imported From the Gutters of London, Lands At Ruddy Cove From the Mail-Boat, Makes the Acquaintance of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, and Tells Them 'E Wants to Go 'Ome In Which, Also, the Way to Catastrophe Is Pointed_
The ht, when the shadows are black and wet, and the wind, blowing in frohts in the cottages are blurred by the fog They fore
Beyond is deep night and a wilderness into which the wind drives In the s to the coast Within the cloudy wall it is all glu away, there lies disclosed a world of rock and forest and fu from the end of the earth to the suedness and hazy distances; of silence and a vast, forbidding loneliness
It was on such abeen landed at Ruddy Cove fro in the fall before Donald North played ferrye and the floe--it was on such a foggymade the acquaintance of Billy Topsail and Jimmie Grimm
”hello!” said Billy Topsail
”hello!” Ji whined
”Uh-huh,” said Billy Topsail
”This yer '_o
Billy nodded