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"Hal Crane drove out on his wheel to the woods, as he promised, you know, and not a letter, nor a line, nor a scrap was there," and she dropped her dimpled chin down on her soft white dimity collar, until the top of her curly head slanted like a toboggan hill. "That isn't what worries me most," interposed Madaline.
A smiling native, with a strong rope attached to the toboggan, stood on each side of it, and held it back or pulled it forward, according to the exigencies of the case.
"It will be dark before they're ready if they're not quick," said Kit, and Grace looked up the hill. "I think they're starting the sledge. If there had been nobody about, I would have liked to come down with the peat. You can't imagine how exciting it is." They watched the sledge slip over the brow of the descent. It got larger as it came down, but it did not run as fast as the toboggan.
And after all, the upshot of Young Joe's experiment was, that sleds became popular on the chute, and almost came to exclude the toboggan; only the boys continued the chute for fully a mile down stream, shovelling away to the glare ice. Young Joe had introduced a new and more exciting form of sport.
No. 4 had suddenly "shut off," and was now coasting downhill like a huge toboggan. Another blast came from the whistle. "By Jove, she's going to stop!" said Cullin. "What on earth's the meaning of that?"
When making a hillside descent an otter prefers to use an old, well-worn track and glides down it with the ease and grace of a toboggan on its slide. It was the sight of the otter's trail that set Oo-koo-hoo thinking of his younger days. "Years ago, my son, I very nearly killed a man. It happened at just such a place as this: a little lake with a patch of open water above a spring.
The cage was already fastened on a wide toboggan, and scarcely was the sun up when Miki was on his way to Fort O' God. This was the big day at the carnival the day of the caribou-roast and the fight. For many minutes before they came in sight of Fort O' God Miki heard the growing sound.
Then he fastened wild grape vines about the antlers, and, with a little exertion drew the body after him as though it had been a toboggan. It slid more easily than one would imagine, along the grain; but not as easily as by some other methods with which Thorpe was unfamiliar.
I can shoot him easy enough if he does." It was the work of only a few minutes to strike the tent and pack it and the other things, which included the stove, an axe, blanket and food, on the toboggan. The half-breed was highly elated when he started off with his booty. The storm had come at just the right time.
"Why, those hand-rails are meant for timid girls to take hold of. A boy would never want a toboggan with hand-rails." "Perhaps the fellow who's going to win the freshman's mile expects to invite some of the young ladies to go out tobogganing with him," hinted young Prescott. "Is it fixed who shall win that race?" demanded Laura, teasingly. "Hardly that," Dick rejoined, dryly.
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