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distance from the shore. One high cold morning Prince & I went out for a walk. The ice was frozen solid close to the shore & I suppose of course we could cross the lake & I started. By chance a paper went blowing along just ahead of me & quite fast & for sport I sat Prince after it not dreaming but that the ice was firm where the new ice joined the old nor did Prince. So he went bounding along & I after him when all at once the ice where he was & ahead of me gave away & in went Prince. I suppose of course he would go under the ice & get drowned. I did not dare to help him, but strood off at a distance & watched him. As he would crawl part way upon the ice it would give away & in again he would go