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"What's that?" he said, as he lurched ominously across the room. He had swallowed the contents of a flask of Benedictine which he had taken from his rucksack, and the repeated drinks were taking effect. "I'll sweep the house, so there isn't a bug in a blanket left you damned brat!" He was bellowing like a bull, chewing his red beard and muttering to himself.
Two gray and decrepit policemen rode with him and half way out stopped at a stone hut to arrest the perpetrator of the deed and bring him along, wrapped in the customary red sarape and indifference. The waterfall over a broad face of rock was pleasing but not extraordinary, and swinging on my rucksack I struck off afoot.
Accidents are miraculously few and far between in Ski-ing, considering the falls and the large number of people who ski. But they happen occasionally, and it is as well to be prepared. The list of gear could be prolonged to any extent, as "What to carry in my Rucksack" becomes an enthralling hobby.
Michel pushed open the door of his cottage, and lit his lamp, without after all bethinking him that the room was dark and empty. His ice-axes stood in a corner, the polished steel of their adz-heads gleaming in the light; his Rücksack and some coils of rope hung upon pegs; his book with the signatures and the comments of his patrons lay at his elbow on the table, a complete record of his life.
Van der Pant, a neat little bearded man in a black tail-coat, a black bowler hat, and a knitted muffler, with a large rucksack and a conspicuously foreign-looking bicycle, to the hospitalities of Dower House. Mr. Van der Pant had escaped from Antwerp at the eleventh hour, he had caught a severe cold and, it would seem, lost his wife and family in the process; he had much to tell Mr.
If a Ski is broken near the front, the wooden Ski tip, when properly adjusted enables one to run any distance quite comfortably and even permits of turns. It is clumsy to carry except in a Bergans Rucksack. A long, narrow pocket might be sewn diagonally across the back of an ordinary Rucksack in which to carry it, but I am afraid it would be uncomfortable.
I have been told not to bring much luggage. Mrs. Britling, please." Mrs. Britling became attentive. "If I could leave much of my luggage, my clothes, some of them, and particularly my violin, it would be much more to my convenience. I do not care to be mobilised with my violin. There may be much crowding. Then I would but just take my rucksack...." "If you will leave your things packed up."
I have never met anyone who has carried out this suggestion and do not want the extra weight of red tape in my Rucksack, but it makes one think and realize how much other experienced runners have thought also. The following precautions would seem to me to be better: Never ski along, or above, or below a dangerous-looking slope under doubtful conditions.
And suddenly he thought: Ah, it is all because I stayed up there this afternoon talking to that girl, all because I forgot HER! And then he heard a stir behind him. There they were, coming down the passage from a side door she in front with her alpenstock and rucksack smiling. Instinctively he recoiled behind some plants. They passed.
As for Captain Alden, he stood there a compact, small figure in his long coat with the rucksack strapped to his shoulders, peering up with the eye of the connoisseur. His smile was of contentment absolute. "My beauty ah, my beauty!" he was murmuring. Then, in the presence of this mighty thing, silence fell on all. The major set hands on hips, blinked, puckered his lips, and silently whistled.
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