Part 5 (2/2)
”That's it, sir Makes a nice snug cover for athe walrus or seals, or seeking a way through the ice”
”And this ladder is for a ht again, sir; you don't want no telling He creeps up the ladder, in through the bottoht or nine miles any way”
Steve looked down, and could see that the reat cask fast to the end of the line Then, turning to theout for ice”
”Ay, sir, I did”
”How long will it be before we coht of any?”
The sailors both looked at hi as it takes to cast your eyes to the nor'ard, sir”
”What do youhis thumb over his shoulder ”You can see ice, can't you?”
Steve looked in the direction indicated, and shook his head
”Nonsense, sir!” said the other ”There's ice--one, two, three good-sized bits floating this way”
”I can't see them,” said Steve sadly ”Your eyes are better than er than you Try again”
The boy looked, holding on by passing his arave from the pressure of the wind, and produced a peculiar effect, as of swinging, now that his attention was not directed to the work going on
”Feel all right?” said the first Norseiddy, sir?”
”No, I think not I'ain There, straight ahere the sea shi+nes in the sunlight”
”N-no,” said Steve; ”I can see the waves breaking and sparkling miles away”
”No, sir; you couldn't see the waves breaking and sparkling miles away on a day like this What you see is ice”
”What, an iceberg? I thought that would be like an island”
”No, sir; a bit or two of floe ice going to the south'ard”
”Yes, I see now; but how big are these pieces?”
”Ten or a dozen feet out of the water, and perhaps a hundred feet long”
”But what do you mean by floe ice?”