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08 - Cruise of the Noah's Ark by David Cory · Cruise of the Noah's Ark

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  Speaker 1: Or The Crews of the Nosark by David Cory. The
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  Speaker 1: Iceberg jingle bells, jingle bells as getting cold as ice.
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  Speaker 1: Put your furs and mittens on, Wrap up, warm and nice.
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie awoke with a start. My how cold it was.
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  Speaker 1: The porthole glass was covered with a network of frosty lace,
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  Speaker 1: and the little dove who slept in Marcher's cabin pulled
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  Speaker 1: her head out from under her wing and shivered. What
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  Speaker 1: has happened? Asked Marjorie, sitting up in bed and looking
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  Speaker 1: about her. Perhaps she expected to see Jack Frost sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the rocking chair. Quickly pulling on her slippers, she
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  Speaker 1: ran to the porthole to ask her good friend the
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  Speaker 1: weathercock the reason for this sudden drop in the temperature.
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  Speaker 1: She found him, as usual, perched on the flag pole.
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  Speaker 1: His comb was very red, as if Jack Frost had
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  Speaker 1: given it a nip. And now and then he raised
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  Speaker 1: one leg to his breast, warm his toes in the
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  Speaker 1: fluffy feathers. Good morning, said Marjorie. Isn't it freezing? Do
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  Speaker 1: you wonder? Answered the weather cock, pointing to a large
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  Speaker 1: iceberg close at hand. She turned to look, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: just a few feet away was a great mountain of ice.
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  Speaker 1: We're ground on an iceberg, went on the weather Cock.
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  Speaker 1: We ran into an ice floe last night, and the
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  Speaker 1: ark sleppt upon the ledge of the iceberg and grounded.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness gracious, cried Marjorie. What are we ever going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I don't know, answered the weather Cock. I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to get some woolen socks and a pair of
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  Speaker 1: felt shoes, or my toes will be frostedten Perhaps Missus
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  Speaker 1: Noah will nitch you a pair, said Marjorie. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: down to breakfast now and I'll speak to her about it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, replied the weather Cock, and tell her I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind having a worsted muffler too. Down below, matters
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  Speaker 1: were even worse, for the fresh water had frozen during
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  Speaker 1: the night, so that it was impossible to give the
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  Speaker 1: animals a drink. Missus Noah had been forced to melt
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  Speaker 1: a piece of ice and a pan over the fire
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  Speaker 1: in order to have water with which to make the coffee. Phew,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Captain Noah, coming in from deck and closing the
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  Speaker 1: door as quickly as possible. My hands are almost frozen.
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  Speaker 1: This is as bad as a trip to the North
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  Speaker 1: Pole perhaps worse, for we are totally unprepared for this
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  Speaker 1: kind of weather. Just then, mister Jonah and the boys
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  Speaker 1: came in, rubbing their hands and stamping their feet to
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  Speaker 1: keep warm. Merry Christmas, laughed Anne. The scathing's find that
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  Speaker 1: on the ice floe, how Sholly, cried Marjorie. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: skating after breakfast, No, sir ee, said Captain Noah. The
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  Speaker 1: boys must help me float the ark. One of the
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  Speaker 1: rubber tired wheels is crushed and it will take a
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  Speaker 1: lot of hard work to get her off. We'd better
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  Speaker 1: set about it as soon as possible, said mister Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: after Captain Noah had made an inspection. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: animals are nearly perishing with the cold. The monkeys are
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  Speaker 1: rolled up so tight you'd think they were ferbaals. Only
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  Speaker 1: the polar bears seem to enjoy life, and they are
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  Speaker 1: just crazy to take a run on the ice. Let
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  Speaker 1: them wait, said Captain Noah. We have more serious things
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  Speaker 1: to attend to than pleasure for the moment. Well, come
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  Speaker 1: and get a good hot breakfast first, said Missus Noah,
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  Speaker 1: bringing in the steaming coffee pot and a plate of
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  Speaker 1: hot corn. Muffins after breakfast, you'll all feel differently. This
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  Speaker 1: was indeed good advice, and when breakfast was over, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Noah said, get the crowbar and the wooden rollers to fath.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if we can start the old ark moving.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe she's stuck too deep in the ice, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: try it at any rate. Here, my little girl, said
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  Speaker 1: kind missus Noah to Marjorie, put on this muffler if
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  Speaker 1: you're going out. It's pretty cold. So Marjorie tied the
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  Speaker 1: warm muffler around her neck and stepped out on deck.
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  Speaker 1: A beautiful sight met her eyes. Towering high above was
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  Speaker 1: a mountain of glittering ice, while as far as the
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  Speaker 1: eye could reach was a field of ice and snow.
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  Speaker 1: Under the wreys of the morning sun, parts of the
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  Speaker 1: great bird glittered like a rainbow. It was so cold
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  Speaker 1: that Marjorie had to jump up and down to keep
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  Speaker 1: her toes from freezing down on the ice. Close to
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  Speaker 1: the ark, Captain Noah and his crew were busily at work.
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  Speaker 1: One of the auto wheels had sunk deep into the
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  Speaker 1: ice and acted like an anchor. The other wheels also
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  Speaker 1: were embedded in the ice, so that the ark was
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  Speaker 1: held as if in a vice. Guess we'll have to
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  Speaker 1: give it up, exclaimed Captain Noah, after an hour's hard work,
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  Speaker 1: during which time the ark had not moved an inch.
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  Speaker 1: We'd better make up our minds to winter here until
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  Speaker 1: the iceberg close into a warmer climate and either melts
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  Speaker 1: or breaks apart. That's cheerful, said mister Jonah. I've nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but some are flannels and a macintosh with me. What
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  Speaker 1: about some of the poor animals who are used to
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  Speaker 1: the torrid zone, replied Captain Noah, shouldering the crowbar and
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  Speaker 1: climbing up the rope ladder to the deck. Mister Jonah
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  Speaker 1: did not reply, but turned up his coat collar and
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  Speaker 1: stamped upon his feet to warm them. The hairless Mexican
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  Speaker 1: dog will surely die if we don't do something for him,
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  Speaker 1: said am. I think I'll ask mother if she won't
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  Speaker 1: let him stay in the kitchen. But Missus Noah did
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  Speaker 1: not seem very pleased over this suggestion. Gracious me, she said,
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  Speaker 1: shim already has two parrots, a marmoset, and a little
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  Speaker 1: green steak in the kitchen. I don't suppose one more
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  Speaker 1: animal would make much difference, if it will only keep
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  Speaker 1: from under my feet. I nearly stepped on one of
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  Speaker 1: the steaks this morning, and the kitchen is none too
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  Speaker 1: large anyway. Don't you boys worry your mother anymore, said
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah sternly. The animals have got to make the
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  Speaker 1: best of it. Any One who travels by sea undergoes
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  Speaker 1: some risk, and I'm sure I'm as careful a captain
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  Speaker 1: as a man could be. It's lucky we didn't go
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  Speaker 1: down to the bottom of the sea when we struck
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  Speaker 1: the berg, instead of running up on it safely. After dinner,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah and mister Jonah held a consultation as to
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  Speaker 1: what was the best thing to do under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, some of the animals, like the polar bears
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  Speaker 1: and the seals, will enjoy a vacation on the ice.
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  Speaker 1: The penguins too will be glad to have a little change.
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  Speaker 1: We can let them out and the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: Arctic passengers. But how to keep the other animals warm
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  Speaker 1: puzzles me. We haven't call enough to keep the furnaces
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  Speaker 1: going for very long. Mister Jonah stroked his chin reflectively.
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  Speaker 1: We might dig a channel from the ark to the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the berg and then float the Ark, he said,
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  Speaker 1: after a pause. That's a pretty good scheme, said Captain Noah.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to work at once. Here, you boys, get
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  Speaker 1: the pick axes and come with me. By evening the
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  Speaker 1: canal was finished. Now when the tide rises, said Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 1: resting on the handle of his pickaxe, perhaps the old
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  Speaker 1: tube will float. It was now quite dark, so all
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  Speaker 1: hands returned to the ark. The animals which had been
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  Speaker 1: allowed to play on the ice had all returned, except
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  Speaker 1: the two polar bears, who begged Captain Noah to let
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  Speaker 1: them stay out all night, as they wished to see
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  Speaker 1: the northern mice from the top of the iceberg. It
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  Speaker 1: was a very tired family that gathered around the supper
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  Speaker 1: table that evening. But after the meal was over, the
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  Speaker 1: weather cock began to sing. It's time for bed, and
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  Speaker 1: all the ark should soon be snoring in the dark.
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  Speaker 1: The elephant and kangaroo, the lion and the curled horn
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  Speaker 1: neew have gone to bed, and so should you. So
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  Speaker 1: good night. Coc the Doo Doo and of chapter eight
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  Speaker 1: reread by Nancy Cochrane Gergen Gilbert Arizona, August nineteen, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three.