Tommy Twisters Discovery 273

“Other folks have palates as well as
you,” he said sulkily. ‘Although you ave
so stuck up, I flatter myself I know what's
good—and I kind of most always have
blubber for lunch.”

You will have noticed that the bear did
not talk very grammatically ; but you can’t
when you live at the North Pole. If you
keep your mouth open too long, polishing
off your sentences and getting them neat at
the edges, the cold gets in—and there you
are !

“First to the left, and second to the right,
after we've passed that big glacier,” said the
bear. ‘I say, it zs warm near your boat:
I think I'll take my overcoat off if you don’t
mind appearances ?”

The ice-scenery was growing grander and
grander every moment. The picture of it
here is very nice—-beautifully drawn and all
that ; but it doesn’t show you all the colours
flashing from those ice-mountains. It is very
difficult to give them in black printer’s-ink.

Then they came to a solid wall of ice as
high as the highest church you ever saw,

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