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Title: Cast away in the cold : an old man's story of a young man's adventures, as related by Captain John Hardy, mariner
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881
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Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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tion I was carried into the sea before I could re-cover myself Of course I sunk immediately, and dreadfullycold was the water ; but, rising to the surface in a moment, Iwas preparing to make a vigorous effort to swim back to theice, when another badly frightened and ill-mannered seal, as Iam sure you will all think, plunged into the sea without oncelooking to see what he was doing, and hit me with the pointof his nose fairly in the stomach. I thought now for certain that my misfortunes were allover, and that my end was surely come. However, I got myhead above the surface once more, and did my best to keep itthere ; but my hopes vanished when I perceived that I was atleast twenty feet from the edge of the ice. It was as much asI could do to keep my head above water, without swimmingforward, so much embarrassed was I by my heavy clothing, CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. 39 the great cold, and the terrible pains (worse than those of col-ic) caused by the seal hitting me in the stomach. I am quite
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John Hardy takes a Ride without meaning it. certain that this would have been the last of John Hardysadventures, had not one of my companions, seeing me goingoverboard on the back of the seal, rushed to my rescue. Hethrew me his line for dragging seals (the end of which I hadbarely strength to catch and hold on to), and then he drewme out as one would haul up a large fish. I came from the sea in a most sorry condition, as you canwell imagine. My mouth was full of salt water. I was soprostrated with the cold that I could scarcely stand, and mypains were so great that I should certainly have screamed had 40 CAST AWAY IN THE COLD. I not been so full of water that I could not utter a singleword. But I managed, after a while, to get all the waterspit out, and then, after drawing into my lungs a few goodlong breaths of air, I felt greatly refreshed. I could still,however, hardly stan.d, and was shivering with the cold.But I found that I had strength enough to stagger back tothe ship, where

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