ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| "Jim Got in at least One Good Blow" | [Frontispiece.] |
| Discussing the Plan | [19] |
| "A Moment Later They were Off" | [33] |
| Supper in the Log Cabin | [41] |
| "Lay on!" | [51] |
| Crossing the Hummock | [67] |
| Jim and Katy Bringing the Rushes to Camp | [75] |
| "The Little Fire was soon Blazing Merrily" | [85] |
| Camping against an Ice Wall | [97] |
| "A Sharp Report was Heard" | [115] |
| Katy Trapping the Snow-buntings | [127] |
| Setting the New Traps | [131] |
| "Rex Struck out and Swam across" | [151] |
| "They were Able to Drag his Lifeless Form out upon the Ice" | [157] |
| "Try to Steady Her" | [169] |
| The Cabin on the Island | [187] |
| Attacked by the Dogs | [199] |
| "Don't Cry, Katy!" | [209] |
| "'Is he Dead?' asked Jim" | [223] |
| Repairing the Old Scow | [239] |
| "'Wa'al, I Declare!'" | [247] |
THE ICE QUEEN.
Chapter I.
THROWN UPON THEIR OWN RESOURCES.
The early dusk of a December day was fast changing into darkness as three of the young people with whose adventures this story is concerned trudged briskly homeward.