CHAPTER X
WHERE NIGHT IS SIX MONTHS LONG
“IT IS a good thing that both the Evening Star and the Equator shine,” said Billy. “We can find them so easily in the dark.”
“But there isn’t going to be any dark,” said Jack Frost.
“Oh, but there will be at night!” said Billy confidently. “It is always dark at night. It has to be or you wouldn’t know it was night.”
“But there won’t be any night for six months where we are going,” said Jack Frost. “There never is at the North Pole.”
“Gracious!” said Billy; “that must be dreadful. And do the days last for six months, too?”
“To be sure they do. If you ask a boy to come to your house to spend the afternoon at the North Pole he stays for three months.”
“It must be terrible when the baby has the colic all night,” said Billy thoughtfully. “That happens often at our house, and Papa has to walk the floor with him.”
“I don’t know much about babies,” said Jack Frost, “but I suppose they would stop crying before morning. Maybe they’d be satisfied crying for a month or two if they weren’t interrupted.”
“There’s an iceberg,” said Nimbus, who had been keeping a lookout. “We ought to be getting there in a little while now. We are running into a dawn anyway.”