He seems to know everything and to have gone through every sort of experience, and I notice that most of his prognostications come to pass." "So they do, Tom," said Fred; "but I wish he would put a better face on things till they _do_ come to pass.

His looks are enough to frighten one." "I think we shall require another line out, Mr.Saunders," remarked the captain, as the gale freshened, and the two hawsers were drawn straight and rigid like bars of iron; "send ashore and make a whale-line fast immediately." The second mate obeyed with a grunt that seemed to insinuate that _he_ would have had one out long ago.

In a few minutes it was fast; and not a moment too soon, for immediately after it blew a perfect hurricane.
Heavier and heavier it came, and the ice began to drift more wildly than ever.

The captain had just given orders to make fast another line, when the sharp, twanging snap of a cord was heard.

The six-inch hawser had parted, and they were swinging by the two others, with the gale roaring like a lion through the spars and rigging.