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A skating club of some hundred members made him their President, and his first law case in the West came to him through this position. A skating carnival was to be given, and the club had engaged an Irishman to clear a certain part of the frozen Mississippi of snow for the skating. This he failed to do at the time specified and the club had it cleaned by some one else.
I think I'll make 'Sizzle the Boolooroo of the Blues, but I want you to promise me, Ghip, that you'll destroy the Great Knife and its frame and clean up the room and turn it into a skating rink an' never patch anyone as long as you rule the Blueskins." Ghip-Ghisizzle was overjoyed at the prospect of being Boolooroo of the Blues, but he looked solemn at the promise Trot exacted.
There were rare hours on the ice, when the skating was good; there was coasting such as Charlie had never dreamed of before, for in a country where all the land stood up on edge, as Grant expressed it, and where fences were unknown, it was easy to find the long, smooth slopes which are the delight of every owner of a good sled.
Dinner ready?" exclaimed Howard, casting his skates into the nearest chair, and moving up to the stove to warm his chilled fingers. "How was the skating?" asked his mother, looking up from her work to smile at Allie, as she pulled off her coat and hat, and then caught up the child from the floor.
And he looked sadly upon Gretel. "It is nothing," said Gretel. "I am often warm too warm when I am skating. "No, no," answered Hilda, quite angry at herself. "I am careless, cruel, but I meant no harm. I wanted to ask you I mean, if " And here Hilda, coming to the point of her errand, faltered before the poorly clad but noble-looking children she wished to serve.
"I got an idee for sure." "Well?" asked Major Fitch. "Let's all of us ol' ones get together an' hire the skating rink an' give Miss Judy Buck a party that this county won't ever forget." The other chairs came down on all fours and the veterans of the Rye House porch drew together in solemn conclave. Old tongues clicked and old beards wagged, while Pete Barnes' idea took constructive shape.
It is a joy to think of him as he was then, virile in body, full fleshed, active, leading in walking and skating and swimming what a flood of memories! What an interest he took in all the things I did, and how often a most active part. One day in May I had gone out with our one shot of shad net, and was to try an experiment.
The first winter I was at the Morrises', I had an adventure. It was a week before Christmas, and we were having cold, frosty weather. Not much snow had fallen, but there was plenty of skating, and the boys were off every day with their skates on a little lake near Fairport. Jim and I often went with them, and we had great fun scampering over the ice after them, and slipping at every step.
"Well, you must be sure to pass, Andy, and then it will be good-by to Crabtree forever." After school was dismissed about twenty of the cadets hurried down to the lake-front to go skating. "I see Reff Ritter has hired the Rosebud again," remarked Pepper, as he was adjusting his skates. "Fred, are you going to take out the Skimmer?" "No, I don't think it is safe.
ELIZABETH: Oh the things one does. Tennis and skating and dancing and CLAIRE: The things one does. ELIZABETH: Yes. All the things. The the things one does. Though I haven't been in school these last few months, you know. Miss Lane took us to Europe. TOM: And how did you like Europe? All the girls were quite mad about Europe. Of course, I'm glad I'm an American. CLAIRE: Why?
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