In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life
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Stables Gordon. In Touch with Nature: Tales and Sketches from the Life
Chapter One. Rowan-Tree Cottage
Chapter Two. A Christmas in the Arctic Ocean
Chapter Three. Birds and Beasts in Winter. – The Owl and the Weasel
Chapter Four. Away in the Woods
Chapter Five. Summer Life in Norland Seas
Chapter Six. Face to Face with Ice-Bears
Chapter Seven “Spring is Coming: – The Storm. – The Fairy Forest: A Tale.”
Chapter Eight. On the Road. – Neptune: A Story of Strange Meetings
Chapter Nine. Old Doddie; the Cyclist’s Story
Chapter Ten. Spare the Sparrow
Chapter Eleven. On the Breezy Cliff-Top. – Our “Hoggie.”
Chapter Twelve. Danger; A Study in Dog Life
Chapter Thirteen. Dicky Dumps: the Parson’s Pony
Chapter Fourteen. A Quiet Evening – Rover’s Experience
Chapter Fifteen. Just Like Tiny
Chapter Sixteen. Professor Dick’s Academy: A Strange Adventure
Chapter Seventeen. The Old Man’s Dogs
Chapter Eighteen. Up the Vale of Don. – A Peep at Paradise
Chapter Nineteen. Back Once More in Bird-Haunted Berks
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“If you will take a map of the world,” began Frank, “and with a pin or a needle to direct you, follow one of the lines of longitude running south and north through England, up towards the mysterious regions round the Pole, you will find that this line will run right away through Scotland, through the distant Orkney and Shetland, past the lonely Faroe Isles till, with Iceland far on the left, you cross the Arctic Circle. Go north still, and still go north, and presently you will find yourself near to a little island called Jan Mayen, that stands all by itself – oh! so desolate-looking – right in the centre of the Polar ocean. In that lonely isle of the sea I spent my Christmas many years ago.
“What took me there, you ask me, Ida? I will tell you. I was one of the officers of a strongly built but beautiful steam yacht, and we had spent nearly all the summer cruising in the Arctic seas. For about three weeks we sojourned near an island on the very confines of the No-Man’s land around the Pole, and nearly as far to the nor’ard as any soul has ever yet reached.
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“Christmas came at last, and preparations had been made to spend it cheerfully for more than a week beforehand.
“After service – and how impressive the service was, held on the deck of that Aurora-lighted ship, I shall never forget – after service, we all rushed down to dinner. We were to have ours early, because the Yacks’ entertainment was to be the great event of the twenty-four hours.
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