. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. GEE UT\ THERE ! unless its all in Russian and I cant make it out. Gee up, there! AndI couldnt tell how to keep in it, if I could see it plain as my nose — geeup! — for theres only one line apiece running out to the prow of eachof these animals, like the reindeer in Lapland. Gee up, there! WhenI pull they slow up so I let em lie loose and use the whip. Gee up! Ifthe lash dont come off Ill keep em going till something splits. Geeup ! Cracky! but that was a bad bump. Is there any water in the hold ?Seems though we must have sp
. American boys in the Arctics; a trip to the far north by a new path. GEE UT\ THERE ! unless its all in Russian and I cant make it out. Gee up, there! AndI couldnt tell how to keep in it, if I could see it plain as my nose — geeup! — for theres only one line apiece running out to the prow of eachof these animals, like the reindeer in Lapland. Gee up, there! WhenI pull they slow up so I let em lie loose and use the whip. Gee up! Ifthe lash dont come off Ill keep em going till something splits. Geeup ! Cracky! but that was a bad bump. Is there any water in the hold ?Seems though we must have sprung aleak that time. Gee up ! gee up!gee up! Jehu ! Theyve struck a new tack and bust my best cable, buttheyre gaining ! Gee up ! ON TO BALAKLAVA! 187 How are they now? Roy asked a moment later. Cant just say; theyre round a curve. Gee up! I believe thesethings are getting used to the whip, or else the winds giving up! Never mind, well be going down hill again in a BALAKLAVA. Thats our best tack, for there dont seem to be any hold-backs about therigging, and they have to run like mad to keep the crib off their ! Didnt I tell you ? Gee up ! or well run over you ! I say, Scott, this thing is listing to port like everything. Do youknow where youre going ? Going to Balaklava, Captain. May be were listing, but I dont seewhy. Everythings level on ahead. The horses know the road betterthan I do. Guess they smell the town. At any rate, they act as thoughthey thought they were going somewhere and one of them — gee up,there! — seems to think hes almost there — gee up! — but we are listing,no mistake. I believe — G. Whittaker! — There ! I told you so. Any 188 ON TO BALAKLAVA! bones broken ? No ? Glad of that. It wasnt my fault, Scott said, ashe pulled Roy out of a mass of straw and dirt and fragments of a Russianhay cart. I had my mouth open to say that I believed a wheel wascoming off. Well, you would have been mighty near right, S
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