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Emile started the dogs, and when they had toiled up the ascent they saw the men with the bob-sled far ahead on the great white plain. "We may not have another chance for a private talk until we reach the settlement," Blake said. "What are you going to do about the petroleum?" "I'll come back and prospect the muskeg as soon as the frost goes," Harding answered promptly.
You'd like him fine." When he drove off he waved to Bea; and Carol, lonely at the window above, was envious of their pastoral. "And I But I will go on." THEY were driving down the lake to the cottages that moonlit January night, twenty of them in the bob-sled.
Another band of girls was packed into a long, wide bob-sled on the point of starting with the white mother to the little log post office down the river. "Very lots of fun, and I am being punished here in bed!" Cordelia said to herself, mournfully. "Now the bob-sled starts, and very loud the sleigh-bells ring.
The noise was dull and heavy, and as he knew the snow would deaden it, whoever was coming could not be far away. "Bob-sled!" Emile exclaimed with scorn. "V'la la belle chose! Arrive the great horse of the plough." "The fellow's sure a farmer since he's coming up with a Clydesdale team," Lane said, laughing. "One wouldn't have much trouble in following his trail."
Then Blake heard a sound which puzzled him. It was not the quick patter of a dog team, nor the sliding fall of netted shoes. The noise was dull and heavy, and as the snow would deaden it, whoever was coming could not be far away. "Bob-sled!" Emile exclaimed with scorn. "V'la la belle chose! Arrive ze great horse of ze plow."
She sat in the smallest rocking-chair, a model of Victorian modesty. But she saw or she imagined that the women who had gurgled at her so welcomingly when she had first come to Gopher Prairie were nodding at her brusquely. During the pause after the first game she petitioned Mrs. Jackson Elder, "Don't you think we ought to get up another bob-sled party soon?"
A month after, on a sleighing-party, under the buffalo robes in the bob-sled, he whispered, "You pretend to be a grown-up schoolteacher, but you're nothing but a kiddie." His arm was about her. She resisted. "Don't you like the poor lonely bachelor?" he yammered in a fatuous way. "No, I don't! You don't care for me in the least. You're just practising on me." "You're so mean!
"I'll bet none of 'em can go," he said. "They've all got jobs for the vacation. I'm glad we've got our money earned." "I just thought of another difficulty," sighed Charley. "Not one of us owns a boat." "We can borrow one," said Lew. "I hate to borrow things," replied Charley. "You remember how I borrowed old man Packer's bob-sled and broke it and then had to pay to have it remade.
Bob-sled is a proper, dictionary name for the ordinary form of this device and it is used at Davos and St. Moritz for jolly family parties on the straight courses.
The girls ignored Tom, Bob and Isadore as they chatted at the breakfast table, and at once they went about their own small affairs, leaving the boys by themselves. Tom and his mates discussed some plan for a few minutes and then Tom sang out: "Who'll go sliding? There's a big bob-sled in the barn and we fixed it up yesterday morning. It will hold the whole crowd.
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