. Our young folks [serial]. d howl, and dashed off after the bear in a straight , sledge, dogs, and all passed us quickly by, — the man shouting moreexcitedly than ever to his dogs, sometimes calling them by name, as itseemed to us, and sometimes crying Nenook, nenook ! and sometimes, Ka, ka! ka, ka ! and so away they went, rushing like the wind, — thewhole scene more strange than strangest dream, — the dogs and man likespectral things, so quickly had they come and so unexpected ; or, at theleast, the dogs seemed like great howling wolves, and the man a wild man ofthe frozen ocean, clo
. Our young folks [serial]. d howl, and dashed off after the bear in a straight , sledge, dogs, and all passed us quickly by, — the man shouting moreexcitedly than ever to his dogs, sometimes calling them by name, as itseemed to us, and sometimes crying Nenook, nenook ! and sometimes, Ka, ka! ka, ka ! and so away they went, rushing like the wind, — thewhole scene more strange than strangest dream, — the dogs and man likespectral things, so quickly had they come and so unexpected ; or, at theleast, the dogs seemed like great howling wolves, and the man a wild man ofthe frozen ocean, clothed in wild beasts skins. We called to the man to stop ; we shouted, Come here, come here ! and then again, Come back, come back ! as loud as we could shout, wavinground our caps, and throwing up our arms, and running in a most franticway ; but not the slightest notice would he take of us, not one instant wouldhe stop, but upon his course and purpose he kept right on, pushing after 494 Cast away hi the Cold. [August,. the running bear, without appearing to give us even a single thought. Wecould not doubt that he had seen us, we were so near to him. On went the bear, on after him went the dogs and sledge and impatient grew the dogs, louder called the man to his excited team,and the Dean and I ran after, shouting still, as we had done in the came soon upon the sledge track, and followed it at our greatest speed. At length the cries of the dogs grew indistinct, and then died away atlast entirely, and the mans voice was no longer heard; and that which hadcome so suddenly to put a tantalizing hope of rescue in our hearts for onebrief moment soon became but a dark moving speck upon the great whitefrozen sea, as it had first appeared ; but after it we still followed on. Then the moving speck faded out of view, and everything around wasstill and cold and solemn and desolate as before. Yet still we ran and ran. I said as desolate as before. But O, it was a t
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