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THE

ICELANDER AND HIS DOG.

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Pj^CRIC IVNUTSON, a fish e no an who redded

at ei place on tlie coast of Iccland called
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tjr the Strand, twenty miles to the south of

lleikjavik, left his home one morning in Decem­

ber, before daylight, with the intention of paying

a visit to a friend at Prysivik. His way

thither lay twenty-six miles eastward over a
mountainous desert. The weather was bright

and frosty, and snow had fallen and covered the

ground, He intended to return home on the
following day; and his faithful dog, Cast or, was

his only attendant over the trackless wilds.

When he had proceeded about five miles from

home he fell into a deep chasm, and alighted

unhurt on a shelving part of the rock about