In a month
It is a grandfather's compass, the boy told.
My grandfather was the captain and always took this compass with itself.
Once broke its ship a storm, and it got to ices.
Ices started squeezing the ship, and it had to be left.
The handheld transceiver did not work and seamen made the way nearly a month through ices.
They shipped all stocks in tarpaulin boats, put foxes to them on three persons and so were sent.
In a month they left to the drifting station.
But if not a grandfather's compass, they would get lost in ices.
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