Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . Although this place was not a cave, yet I spoke to theDean about it as such, and by that name we came to know it;so I will now use the term, inappropriate though it is. I alsotold the Dean about some other birds that I had discoveredin great numbers. They were very small, and seemed to 96 CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. have their nests among the rocks all along the opposite sideof the island, where they were swarming on the hillside, andflying overhead in even greater flocks than the duc
Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner . Although this place was not a cave, yet I spoke to theDean about it as such, and by that name we came to know it;so I will now use the term, inappropriate though it is. I alsotold the Dean about some other birds that I had discoveredin great numbers. They were very small, and seemed to 96 CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. have their nests among the rocks all along the opposite sideof the island, where they were swarming on the hillside, andflying overhead in even greater flocks than the ducks. Iknew they were called Mittle auks, from descriptions thesailors had given me of The Dean makes provision for a change of diet. But look here what I ve got, exclaimed the Dean, withan air of triumph, as soon as I came up with him. See thisbig duck! The fellow had actually caught a duck, and in a mostingenious manner. Seeing the ducks fly off their nests, thehappy idea struck him that, if he could only contrive a trap,or dead-fall, he might catch them when they came back. CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. 97 So he selected a nest favorable to his purpose, and then piledup some stones about it, making a solid wall on one side of it;then he put a thin narrow stone on the other side, and on thishe supported still another stone that was very heavy. Thenhe took from his pocket a piece of twine which he was for-tunate enough to have, and tied one end of it to the thinnarrow stone, and, holding on to the other end, hid himselfbehind some rocks near by. When the duck came back toher nest, he jerked the thin narrow stone away by a strongpull on the twine string, and down came the heav
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