| Summary: | string n The mother seals in their quest after bait for a living always prefer to fish in open water, with the ice to ride [on when they need to rest. In a mild winter they can find [open water everywhere, with strings of ice where they can [rest; but with very severe frost the ocean is frozen over [and the seals are driven to the Southern edge of the ice. And when the time comes for them to have their young, they leave together to go North in quest of suitable ice on which to deposit their young. Very severe frost means off-shore winds. The mother seals have sufficient instinct to go far North where their young will be protected from rough water, before they learn to swim, or be able to look after themselves. That has the effect of bringing them all (over [reverse] together in one large patch, instead of a dozen or more patches as we find them in after mile winters, hence the expression, "a frosty winter for a fat spring". PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M.Story 1/77 JH 1/77 [-]142[-] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I string of ice, string of seals
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