The Ice Queen

"[...]quizzed. "Do you mean it?" he asked. "Of course I do. I want to go down as badly as you do. I haven't any stamps, and the walking, I'm told, isn't good. I prefer to skate." "Katy says we might drag our luggage on sleds, as they do in the arctic regions; but supposing the ice should break up, or we should come to a big crack?" "I have read," Kate remarks again, "that they carry boats on their sledges, and pack their goods in the boats, so that they will float if the ice gives way." "Take my boat!" screamed Jim, eagerly. "That would call for a big sled."[...]".