What time is it ?" "Just two o'clock in the morning!" "What! do you mean to say it was _yesterday_ when we started, and that we've been walking all night, and got into _to-morrow morning_ without knowing it ?" "Even so, Fred.

We have overshot our time, and the captain is signalling us to make haste.

He said that he would not fire unless there seemed some prospect of the ice moving, so we had better run, unless we wish to be left behind; come along." They had not proceeded more than half-a-mile when a Polar bear walked leisurely out from behind a lump of ice, where it had been regaling itself on a dead seal, and sauntered slowly out towards the icebergs seaward, not a hundred yards in advance of them.
"Hallo! look there! what a monster!" shouted Fred, as he cocked his musket and sprang forward.

"What'll you do, Tom, you've no gun ?" "Never mind, I'll do what I can with the hammer.

Only make sure you don't miss.