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Title: Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ices was byno means a bad one, and our friends of the Vivian felt themselves morethan repaid for their efforts at Christmas. The operetta was soon over, and then followed a dance. There wasno fear of being overheated, and everybody exercised to the full ability ofhis limbs. It was so late that we dare not tell the hour when the boat-swain called Vivians away! and the visitors returned to their ship. A week later the officers and part of the crew of the Gambetta wereinvited to an entertainment on board the Vivian. They accepted, andcame promptly to find the deck-house decorated and lighted as their ownhad been on the New-year festivities, and, fortunately for them, a fall in FEEDS JOEE IN THE PEEFOEMANCE. 193 the temperature had made the place quite comfortable. The entertain-ment comprised a minstrel performance, in which our young friends had aprominent part and were assisted by the vocal and instrumental musiciansof the crew. Then two of the sailors who had been trained to acrobatic
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PERFORMANCE ON THE TIVIAN. - performances amused the company by turning somersaults, balancing can-non-shot on their arms and heads, and going through other evolutions pe-culiar to the circus. A joke arranged by Fred was perpetrated at theclose of the ground and lofty tumbling which produced a momentarypanic, and then set everybody in a roar of laughter. Part of the performance consisted in handling a fifty-six pound weightas though it were the merest trifle; and to prove that there was no decep- 13 194 THE VOYAGE OF THE VIVIAN. tion, the weight was passed around in the audience before and after beinghandled by the acrobat. When he was through with the weight, the performer allowed it to fallon the stage with a heavy thud, close to the screen at one side; then hethrew a somersault, while his companion essayed certain tricks with thecannon-ball. Attention being thus drawn from the fifty-six pound weight,it was skilfully removed and a pasteboard imitation took its place. Then the perfor

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