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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 484

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theice-floe alongside the steamer, we found wehad another herculean task before us to haulthese bulky bodies up on the cake of ice. Finally, with the assistance of the crew, welanded the great bodies successfully, tooksome snap-shot photographs, and then pro-ceeded to skin them — which was not an… … SURROUNDED BY AVENGING WALRUS. followed by the peculiar, discordant howlingand bellowing of the infuriated beasts. Westill clung to our unwieldy spoils, which madeit impossible to attain any headway. At firstwe hurriedly debated whether we should not walrus as huge seals, with upper…

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