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All through the winter season the various trading posts of Canada are constantly visited by numbers of Indian trappers, many of whom have travelled hundreds of miles on their snow-shoes with their heavily laden toboggans. In Canada and northward the toboggan is in very extensive use, both for purposes of traffic and amusement.
At first she was inclined to be haughty and upstage when men she worked for got fresh with her which didn't help her to get jobs or hold them. So she hit the toboggan. She spent what little money she brought with her and after that it was the old story.
'I saw very little of the social side of life in the district, my whole time being employed at the mines; but even in the mining village where we stayed, they had a snowshoe club, and a very good toboggan slide so good, in fact, that, having gone down once, I never ventured to risk my life on it again. 'If my father knew you were on board, he would be anxious to meet you.
Winn strapped a rake to his left foot, and calculated that the instant he felt the ice under him he must dig into it, otherwise he would go straight over the first bank. Then he crouched over his toboggan, threw himself face downward, and felt it spring into the air. He kept no very definite recollection of the sixty-odd seconds that followed.
The team twisted sinuously and swiftly in the trail as he sped over the edge of the mountain. Upon the plain below he knelt upon the toboggan, with his rifle in front of him; and at his low, hissing commands, which reached no farther than the dogs' ears, the team stretched their long bodies in pursuit of the missioner and his huskies.
Packing his things on his toboggan he set out for the tilt, but had gone only a short distance when the improvised snowshoe broke. He made repeated efforts to mend it, but always it broke after a few steps forward. He was in a desperate situation. He had now been nearly three days without eating.
Those on the tail end of the circus train saw the collapse, then lost sight of the couple as the train rolled around a bend in the road. Down the bank slid the Fat Woman, using Tucker as a toboggan, with the boy yelling lustily. Faster and faster did they slide. Suddenly they landed in the muddy stream with a mighty splash, Teddy still on the bottom of the heap.
"How is that, Muky?" he asked. Mukoki chuckled with unbounded satisfaction. "Ver' fine. No get bad wind never see smoke plenty wood plenty water." Relieved of their burdens, and leaving Wolf tied to the toboggan, the hunters made their way down to the lake. Hardly had they reached its edge when Wabi halted with a startled exclamation and pointed into the forest on the opposite side.
If Papineau is home from his trapping he will help me out. But I'll feel all right soon. This is bound to pass off. If I get too tired when I reach Carcajou, Stefan will put me up for the night. It it seems a pity that girl will have to go." He trudged along behind the toboggan.
For a seventy mile-an-hour locomotive would have been monotonous and tiresome in comparison with a dash around the ice-railway track, containing 850 feet, and covering an elliptic space whose surface had a coat of ice nearly an inch thick. Over this smooth and glistening substance the bobsleigh was gliding with the speed of a toboggan and the ease of a coaster to the merry jingle of sleigh bells.
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