Only I warn you that you wouldn't find him as docile as I am.

Decoyed into a snow-drift and frozen, you might get some valuable experiences in resuscitation by thawing him." "I fancied you had done that already, Kate," whispered Mrs.Hale.
"Freezing is the new suggestion for painless surgery," said Lee, coming to Kate's relief with ready tact, "only the knowledge should be more generally spread.

There was a man up at Strawberry fell under a sledge-load of wood in the snow.

Stunned by the shock, he was slowly freezing to death, when, with a tremendous effort, he succeeded in freeing himself all but his right leg, pinned down by a small log.

His axe happened to have fallen within reach, and a few blows on the log freed him." "And saved the poor fellow's life," said Mrs.Scott, who was listening with sympathizing intensity.
"At the expense of his LEFT LEG, which he had unknowingly cut off under the pleasing supposition that it was a log," returned Lee demurely.
Nevertheless, in a few moments he managed to divert the slightly shocked susceptibilities of the old lady with some raillery of himself, and did not again interrupt the even good-humored communion of the party.