| Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch
longer we'd all have frozen to death. - quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read |
 AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen |
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The captain had been telling how, in one of his Arctic voyages, it was
so cold that the mate's shadow froze fast to the deck and had to be ripped
loose by main strength. And even then he got only about two-thirds of
it back.
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 Illustration by A. B. Frost from first edition FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR |
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Winter is begun here, now, I suppose. It blew part of
the hair off the dog yesterday & got the rest this morning.
- letter to Chatto and Windus, October 21, 1892. Published in The Fence Painter, Winter, 2004. |
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