The Midnight Sun
It 's almost midnight . Look over there ! '' The three of them looked as he pointed . The Midnight Sun of the Arctic hung low on the horizon , but not lower now than it had been for some time . Its rays , reflected from the surface of the Peel River just beyond , shone with a pale luster such as they had never before known . With some sort of common feeling which neither of them could have explained , each of the three boys took off his cap and laid it on the bench beside him as he stood looking at that strange spectacle given to so few travelers to see -- the unsinking Midnight Sun ! It was two o'clock in the morning .