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Never desert a runner who, for any reason, is unable to keep up with a party. Carry your own gear including spare clothing, Ski-ing necessaries, etc. Avoid stepping on the Skis of another runner. This caution is especially necessary for uphill work. Remember that wherever you leave a track others may follow. Therefore only choose safe slopes.

They stripped the others of their gear, taking what they wanted in the way of blankets and saddle equipment, and were putting the horses on leading ropes when a volley of shots ripping through the early morning froze them. Croff whirled to face the road down which the Yankees had vanished. "Came from that direction " They mounted, taking not the open road but a cross route the Cherokee indicated.

Suddenly, with a distinct jerk, the downward dragging sensation ceased; the gear with which I was entangled had broken adrift from the sinking hull; and just as I was upon the point of being suffocated from my long submersion I found myself once more upon the surface.

The forecastle was hushed; the seamen about them slumbered; the only noises were the soothing of the water overside, the stress of the sails and gear, and the irregular tap of a hammer aft. It was safe to speak, but he did not speak. "Oh, nothing," he said, and lay down again. Slade smiled slowly, almost paternally.

Then he shut the door on me and went away; and I misdoubted me he had heard of the reward offered for me and said in myself, "He has gone to inform against me." But, as I sat pondering my case and boiling like the pot over the fire, my host came back, followed by a porter loaded with meat and bread and new cooking-pots and goblets and a new jar and other needful gear.

It came tearing along, swerved unsteadily from one side of the road to the other, then was brought to a sudden, grinding stop, narrowly missing a plunge into the roadside ditch. "The steering gear has gone wrong. I think the ball has been wrenched from the socket," announced the driver of the car, disgustedly. "I wish I could see a horse." Tad grinned.

A couple of slings were passed around the boat, by means of which she was carefully hoisted on board, a mere dilapidated bundle of sticks and raffle of gear. She was at once removed aft out of the way, the business of cutting in the whale claiming precedence over everything else just then. The preliminary proceedings consisted of rigging the "cutting stage."

I will tie them up in that shed, for the present, and then clear out a stall for them afterwards." The horses were led to a shed, encumbered with fishing gear of all sorts. "What madness has seized you, mon capitaine, to put your head into this lion's den?" "I will tell you presently, Brenon, when we get inside. I am glad that you are able to take the horses in.

"The means whereby the people of this land live are highly artificial, and a serious breakdown would lead to starvation among a great number of poorer people. Not the well-to-do would suffer, but the poor of the great cities and those dependent upon them, who would be quite helpless if the machinery by which they are fed on which they are dependent for wages was thrown out of gear.

Sir Reginald at once stepped to the tiller and laid his hand on it. "Where am I to steer for?" he asked. "Head for the liner, in the first instance," answered Mildmay, as he threw the self-steering apparatus out of gear; "and then bring the ship's head very gradually round until you are pointing for the pirate's stern."