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"No thanks," replied Ted, putting on his cap, again. "Want to hustle right home to supper. Looks like a big storm." He stamped down the steps into the snow, and Meg closed the hall door. "Two sleds!" Twaddles was round-eyed with admiration. "Now I won't have to wait all afternoon for my turn." "Unwrap them," said Mother Blossom. "They're just alike, one for the girls, and one for you and Bobby.
I'm afraid they are a bit too small to try to skate yet, but we'll take over sleds for them." "Russ and I are going to have a race!" boasted Laddie. "And if I win, you've got to guess any riddle I ask you, Russ." "I will, if you don't make it too hard," said the older boy with a laugh. As Daddy Bunker had said, there were skates for Russ, Rose, Laddie and Vi, these having been brought from home.
They had some automobile fire apparatus in Centronia, but the engines were still pulled by horses. "Can you pull two sleds, Ruth?" "Oh, my, yes," replied dear little Ruth. If the boys had asked her to pull six sleds she would have tried her best to do it.
All about were evidences of an ancient and modern camp lodge poles ready for the covers, relics and wrecks of all sorts, fragments of canoes and sleds, and the inevitable stray Indian dog. First we made a meal, of course; then I explained to the crew that I wanted all the stuff carried over the portage, 31 miles, to the first lake. At once there was a row; I was used to that.
They were about two and a half feet high, and resembled long-haired sheep. The ears and horns were undiscernible, and their color considerably lighter than that of the matured beasts. "No sense of fear of man," said the life-student of animals. "But they shrink from the dogs." In packing for the journey south, the captives were strapped on the sleds.
Over the jam and out on to the smooth, Smoke tore along, calling loudly, "Billy! Billy!" Billy heard and answered, and by the light of the many fires on the ice, Smoke saw a sled swing in from the side and come abreast. Its dogs were fresh and overhauled his. As the sleds swerved toward each other he leaped across, and Billy promptly rolled off. "Where's Big Olaf?" Smoke cried. "Leading!"
Dog sleds and fur robes, heavy army sacks crammed to their drawstrings with Mackinaw and rubber clothing, boots and shoes, boats, tents, dogs and horses, piles of lumber for boat building, coils of rope, dog harness and bales of hay, while fat yellow coated hams bulged in heaps both gay and greasy in the summer sun as though further frying were unnecessary.
After all, he had a strong affection for his nephew, and he knew that the wilds of northern Canada might prove deadly to a weak party unprovided with proper sleds and provisions. Clarke had hinted that Blake's party was in danger. Surely, aid could reach them, even in that frozen land, by a well-equipped expedition.
"The forests where the wolves are. And the Sleepers. And the snow comes down, and we dig ourselves out. And the dogs, and sleds, and we go soon very soon! Can't we go now? Oo-o!" "Not now, but soon." Steve's satisfaction was in the glance of thanks which he flashed into An-ina's watching eyes. "But now I must really go along to the house, old fellow," he said, with a sigh.
The weariness of the day fell from them, and they whooped encouragement to the dogs. The animals responded with joyous yelps. They were swinging through the gathering darkness at a rattling gallop. 'Gee! Gee! the men cried, each in turn, as their sleds abruptly left the main trail, heeling over on single runners like luggers on the wind.
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