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Th' nex' day th' little Mickrobes made a toboggan slide iv me spine; an' manetime some Mickrobes that was wurkin' f'r th' tilliphone comp'ny got it in their heads that me legs was poles, an' put on their spikes an' climbed all night long.

She said it wuz a sight worth seein'. "Do they come down alone?" sez Josiah. "Oh no!" sez she. "Boys and their sweethearts, men and wives, fathers and mothers and children, sometimes 4 on a Toboggan." Sez Josiah, lookin' anamated and clever, "I'd love to take you on one on 'em, Samantha. "Oh no!" sez I, "I wouldn't want to be took."

Another element of joyful horror is added by the formation of a train; one toboggan being tied to another, perhaps to the number of half a dozen, only the first rider being allowed to steer, and all the rest pledged to put up their feet and follow their leader, with heart in mouth, down the mad descent.

This slide has a "joust" or obstruction at the bottom, which causes the toboggan and its occupants to leap into the air in a way that delights the experts and brings alarm to those who are taking their first ride. But the healthy boy does not limit his winter sports to skates and sleds. Without either of these appliances no end of fun can be had in the snow itself.

The doctor stopped to show me some tracks of otters, and then we came to a place where the bank was steep, and a little smooth path was worn down upon its face, leading into the water. "An otter slide," he explained. "They run up the bank and toboggan down into the water, again and again. It is a sort of game they play." "How I should like to see them!" I exclaimed.

Not until he had kissed her parted, half-smiling lips did he release her. "I'm going to ride now," she declared. "I'm not going to run the danger of being accused again." He wrapped her again in the furs on the toboggan. It was eight miles to Jac Breuil's, and they reached his cabin in two hours.

When questioned, cautiously, she admitted that she knew no reason whatever for the girl's coming, but she hastened to assert that Stefan had said it was all right, which settled the question, and, with her rather waddling gait, started off for her house again. As soon as Stefan returned Sophy saw that he still had a woman on his toboggan.

"We fool fool!" "For not bringing dog shoes?" said Wabigoon. "I've got a dozen shoes on my sledge enough for three dogs. By George " He leaped quickly to his toboggan, caught up the dog moccasins, and turned again to the old Indian, alive with new excitement. "We've got just one chance, Muky!" he half shouted. "Pick out the strongest dogs. One of us must go on alone!"

She saw herself dragging the toboggan up the bank, felt again the horror of that first mad rush, saw the girls flying to right and left before Evie's waving arms, and heard Evie's voice shriek aloud in the pain of the sudden collision. Her own agonised exclamation brought mother and nurse hurrying across the room to lay soothing hands upon her, and hold her down in bed as she cried out wildly

Amik had also started work on several hunting sleds of the toboggan type the only kind used by the natives of the Great Northern Forest. They are made of birch wood and not of birch bark, as a noted American author asserted in one of his books on northern life.