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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Stowaway: A Career of Adventure
Feeling rather proud than otherwise at being selected for what seemed to my youthful mind a somewhat perilous undertaking, I consented. Stepping cautiously along the frozen surface, I had walked some half a dozen yards when, suddenly, smash went the ice, and, as a natural sequence, down went I.
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