: Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn George Manville - Adventure stories; Arctic regions Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels Juvenile fiction; Seafaring life Juvenile fiction; Ship captains Juvenile fiction; Sailors Juvenile fiction; Explorers Juvenile fiction;

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"Got on board at night!" he gasped. "Crept into the cask--meant to get out--but packed in!"

"Did I not refuse you permission to come, sir?" cried the doctor, shaking his fist.

"Yes, uncle!" gasped the stowaway; "but Fanny said, if I didn't come and take care of you, she--she would never--speak to me--any more! Oh, dear! please stop the ship! I feel so poorly!"

"It's a wonder you were not starved to death," said the doctor.

"Or smothered," I said.

"Ye-yes," stammered the poor fellow. "I was all right till they packed things all round me, and then I couldn't get out!"

"Shall we put the ghost specimen in the spirit cask, doctor?" I said.

"Well, no," he replied. "I think we'll let him go down to the cabin. But you'd no business to come, Alfred, for you'll only be in the way."

"Oh, no, uncle," he said, rapidly getting better, between the qualms produced by the rolling of the steamer; "I shall be a great help to you, uncle. I've brought my Alpenstock, a two-jointed one like a fishing-rod; and--and my ice-boots that I wore in Switzerland."

"Bah!" said the doctor.

"And a climbing-rope."

"Pish!" exclaimed the doctor again.

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