below zero, or 107 deg.

below the freezing-point of water.

When we remind our young readers that the thermometer in England seldom falls so low as zero, except in what we term weather of the utmost severity, they may imagine--or rather, they may try to imagine--what 75 deg.

_below_ zero must have been.
It was not quite so cold as that upon this occasion, otherwise the men could not have shown face to it.
"Let's have leap-frog," shouted Davie; "we can jump along as well as walk along.

Hooray! _hup_!" The "hup" was rather an exclamation of necessity than of delight, inasmuch as that it was caused by Davie coming suddenly down flat on the ice in the act of vainly attempting to go leap-frog over Mivins's head.
"That's your sort," cried Amos Parr; "down with you, Buzzby." Buzzby obeyed, and Amos, being heavy and past the agile time of life, leaped upon, instead of over, his back, and there stuck.
"Not so high, lads," cried Captain Guy.