Part 10 (1/2)
”Na, he's a cooard!” cried Watty viciously,--”a lang, ugly cooard!
Makking a show o' gooing up aloft, and all the time had to be held on”
”You'd better not let him hear you say that, my lad, or he'll thrash you”
”Yah! not he!” whined the boy ”He's a cooard, that's what he is; and he's on deck waiting to be ane of the fust to go off in the boots, and I'm kep' doon here”
”Stop that row!” cried the cook viciously
”I canna, I canna! Awoose! And nice and proud your mither' must be of such a booby”
”But I dinna want to be drooned!” sobbed Watty
”Then what are you drooning yourself for in hot water? It don't improve you a bit, only shohite streaks on your dirty face Look here, if you don't stop that noise, I'll tell the captain e take to the boats that you're not worth saving, and then he'll leave you behind”
”Tell hiood”
”Listeners never hear any good of themselves,” said Steve to himself as he walked aft, and then ine-room ”But do I always have my hands in er, and dread the boy could not help s at himself and the force of habit; for at that moment there was a heavy shock caused by a loosethe vessel just on her sharp ste terrible was about to happen, Steve answered the question he had just asked hi them from his pockets to lay hold of the vessel's side Then as he looked over and saw the piece of ice--a large frag by the vessel's side, he could not help laughing, while directly after a thrill of delight shot through him and the men sent up a cheer For a coine-roo noise was heard; and then, as an order was shouted to the man at the wheel, the _Hvalross_ quivered in every timber with a peculiar vibration
The stea round and churning up the icy water, and the _Hvalross_ backed away froerous position
”There, Andra!” cried Steve, as he approached the round down into a ed fibres, ”what do you say to the stea, laddie I'd hae done it better wi' hairf a capfu' o'
wint”
”But there was no wind!” cried Steve
”Nae, there was nae wint But it's a blessing we're awa frae the ice, for it would hae maist broke my hairt to hae left my pipes ahint”
CHAPTER SEVEN
THE LONELY ISLE
With the steaerous work in that dense fog, and sost the ice-floes, which gathered round the away at a touch froe fields acres in extent, broken away from the icy barrier to the northward, to be carried by the current south into the aters, where they would gradually melt away So heavy were some of the shocks received, in spite of all watchfulness, care, and orders to go astern, that Captain Marsha floes and going south But there was the knowledge that so, the almost unknown island of Jan Mayen must lie; and it seemed a pity to leave it nohen the first time the sun appeared they would be able to learn their position for certain; so he held on
”I've lost count,” said Steve at last ”Is it to-day or to-ht or eleven to-ht, sir, if you like to call it so,” said Johannes
”We're up so far north now that the sun never sets for months”
”Never rises, youlifts”