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" Their fingers were kept alive by their work, but it was cold for their feet, and they kicked and hewed simultaneously. I followed their example, but was too vio- lent, and made a hole clean through my footing. A clatter followed as if crock- ery had been thrown down a well. 1 went down a step or two, and dis- covered in a second that all were stand- SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN i86o-'69. ing over a cavern (not a crevasse, speak- ing properly) that was bridged over by a thin vault of ice, fro...m which great icicles hung in grooves. Almost in the same minute Reilly pushed one of his hands right through the roof. The whole party might have tumbled through at any moment. " Go ahead, Croz : we are over a chasm!" "We know it, " he answered, "and we can't find a firm place. " In the blandest manner my comrade inquired if to persevere would not be to do that which is called "tempting Prov- idence. " My reply being in the affirma- tive, he further observed, " Suppose we go down?" "Very willingly.
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