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Heigh-ho! for that run along the ice--a matter of half a dozen leagues or so--at dead of night with a keen north-easterly wind whipping up the blood, and motion--smooth gliding motion--to cause it to glow in every vein.
Heigh-ho! for the joy of living, for the joy in the white, ice-covered world, the joy in the night, and in the moon, and in those distant lights of Leyden which gradually recede and diminish--tiny atoms now in the infinite and mysterious distance!