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Eskimo canoe was quickly overhauled and Peter 

 jvas captured and brought back aboard. 



" You ben bigges' fool for sech a li'l' boy I 

 ever have see," said Gabriel severely. ";You 

 don't know you freeze to deaf up here in winter 

 time, no? " 



Peter had nothing to say. He was ashamed, 

 but he was mad, too. He was not punished. 

 When Captain Shorey learned of the escapade, 

 he merely laughed. Peter took the matter 

 quite to heart and pouted for days. To the end 

 of the voyage, he still dreamed of his Eskimo 

 sweetheart and of the happiness that might have 

 been his. Every time he spoke of her his eyes 



grew bright, "^he was fine gal," he used to 

 say. 



