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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 668

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^a-.-«l«iUm^^ I _^ A SEAL-MEADOW, OR A HERD OF SEALS UPON AN ICE-FLOE. be lifted up instead of crushed. Often a field of young seals lie scattered about here and there, bask-thin bay-ice, or a solid floe, will lie right in the ing in the sun or sheltered under the lee of a hum- i882.) IN Till-:… … endurance, his nerves to peril, and his heart tobitter cruelty ; —but every pelt is worth a dollar !By night, after a seal-meadow hasbeen attacked, the decks of the vessel archidden under a deep layer of fat, slipperypelts. After these have lain long enoughto get cool, they are stowed away in…

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