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A Man On Ice Fishing

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A Man on Ice The kids in an Alaskan school got up one morning and glimpsed out the window. They saw the most amazing sight that a person in school. it was snowing and the roads were covered, school would be canceled! George began to text all his friends, planning to get together and go ice fishing. Jeremy and Tom agreed, so they all walked down to the local ice fishing place. Tom made the fatal mistake of grabbing the handle with his hand. Tom could not move his hand after he put his hand on the handle and he wondered what was askew. George timorously read the sign next to the door, “If you took hold of a latch with un-gloved hands, the iron seized you by the skin and held on” (White, 249). Immediately, all three boys began to panic. Jeremy,
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