" Just as sure as over you live, sir. Why, the ice up there doesn't melt all away in the spring, It breaks up in tome plhces, but mostly it juat keeps growing aud growing, and! shouldn't wourer at all if some of thoce large bergi were hundreds of years old. Don't you think so. Captain ?" "Ithick you a-e about right, YounsV' said the c .j'tair, " I have beard about that' whai'i, luuhc isa't a marker on an arotio Jiitu t,ho uwitida wool,"

"Something in your own experience. Cap?" I asked. 11 Yes."

"Then by all means let tie hear it," said Fred, "I never knew you had been a wlmler."

Yes," said tho Captain, " when I was in command ol tho Sealskin, I waß we"-known at tlpernavik, and they do say I faavo been awaynp—Dut that's what I amooming to. I had been one summer knocking about the entrance of Baffin's Bay, and hadn't done a groat doal. I wus told by some E qiimaux that a largo number of right whales had been seen oil the cast coast ol Greenland, and I deoided to cruise that way. In August wo hadn't seen a ghost cf e whale, but I pushed on, and when about sixty miles east ol Gael Ilawk'a Bay, the welcome cry oarne from the crow's neet, " 1 Thcr-r-r-e she blows I 1 "'Where away!' I shouted, •"Two points off the lee bow, sir/

" Well, I am not going into a whaling 6tory. It's cuough to si>y we got that brute, and did a big trade in the course of the next six weeks, Two months Isle: 1 Bhaped my coursotowards Spitzbergen, to go into win ter quarters there, and start north in the epring. I had tho north pole lever, which ho often oatchua whalers, and 1 wanted to steal a march on every one dee. OuOctober 7th, a sail wta cightcd tar r.woy tc the north ward, and I wandered whether seme oilier fellow had my idea. However, 1 had not much time to wonder, for no sooner bad w." sighted that sail than it bigan to Hew from thesMith-Fouiheatt.and in a tew bemt. 