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O -7 (!'’ - xSzslki iiKEi- t t?x other one Carrying it the on out had follow channel which had been Sandy strained broke under the workers The canoe veered pitched and would have with his feet planted gone over if Sandy on tho bottom of the river 'had not twlstoa straight sheer by strength that the tliat it might had cut the ice Baine "sc course of back cd -first use the it fate But that was not all Jack trying to scramble into from his position on the ice broke through at the side of the canoe and went into the icy water up to his waist The cold was so painful that be could hardly move a leg to help himself Out The situation was without danger for more reasons not his than He one had hands on the of edge the canoe but be could not clamber in for fear of overturning it Neither could he crawl back onto the it ice it for leg as fast as he lifted a on the crumbling edges broke tinder him last under directions from Axel he to of broke a way the stem the canoo At and was dragged in There was nothing Ms for it but to sit in wet clafcWs Axel wrapped him in blankets and gave 1dm a paddle as soon they were in the stream so that he might keep warm by exercise The day was clear with sun and the temperature slowly climbed toward the freezing point with no wind Jack’s wet clothing froze before it became dry but he did not mind It much The stiffness of it was more annoying than tlio coM lie laughed to himself as he thought wihat hds 'mother would do to if Mm he should go home on a freezing day with his clothing wet to his It waist in would be bed foot blankets and something foot to drink He was of opinion just then that ho would be willing to go to bed between blankets warm could have been arranged without interfering with what he food in hand That night they made orty Mile Point They could have gone farther but Sandy wanted to stop for traces of the party they were water to Deep came shore there and to there was no tee cross Jack’s Clothes were dry by the time they as a if it c and-dook |
