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With the momentum secured by its leap from the drift, it skated over the ice for a mile or more, with scarcely a thimbleful of wind in its sail, yet traveling like a fast express. Then it answered the helm again, the wind filled the sail, and they bore down upon the Landing on a direct tack. "Gee! Ain't it great?" cried Marty, as Nelson Haley signaled him to drop the sail.
Well, he no business to have told me and my chum that he used to be the best skater in North America, when he was a boy. He said he skated once from Albany to New York in an hour and eighty minutes. Me and my chum thought if Pa was such a terror on skates we would get him to put on a pair of roller skates and enter him as the "great unknown," and clean out the whole gang.
When he raised his finger the hotel porters and bell-boys skated across the floor like cockroaches, and even the clerk behind the desk looked as meek and unimportant as Andy Carnegie. "Denver passed around, shaking hands with his guests, and saying over the two or three Spanish words he knew until it was like a coronation rehearsal or a Bryan barbecue in Texas.
There, far from the village street, and except at very long intervals, from the jingle of sleigh-bells, I slid and skated, as in a vast moose-yard well trodden, overhung by oak woods and solemn pines bent down with snow or bristling with icicles.
He's almost at the end of the lake now." "Yes, an ice-boat goes almost as fast as the wind," said Bert. "Maybe some day " "Oh, come on!" cried Flossie. "I want to go home! I'm cold standing here." "Yes, we had better go on," said Nan. "I'm all right now." As the five children skated off, no longer thinking of the race, Nan asked Bert: "What are you going to do some day?" "Oh, I don't know.
At the farthest extremity of the smooth ice, which ended at a little frost-bound waterfall, they came to a stop. Churchill looked down at a face like a rose, black eyes that were all alight, and lips that smiled with the fresh happiness of the fine sport. "I've skated at Copenhagen and at St. Petersburg," he said gaily, "to say nothing of Fresh Pond and Lake Superior and other such home grounds.
She had never pictured a youth in a gay uniform looking down at her with ardent eyes as he skated by her side through the crisp still air, while the ice sang a high clear song beneath their feet in accompaniment to his hurried laughing words of protestation. He seemed to touch life lightly and to anticipate nothing but happiness. In truth, it was difficult to be tragic on such a morning.
We stripped and plunged into the river just as the sun came up over the windy bluffs. When I came home to Sandtown at Christmas time, we skated out to our island and talked over the whole project of the Enchanted Bluff, renewing our resolution to find it. Although that was twenty years ago, none of us have ever climbed the Enchanted Bluff.
So it was arranged, and a few minutes later Snap, Shep and Giant set out to look for the tramp who had so unceremoniously disappeared. "If he took to skating he most likely went down to Lake Cameron," said Snap. "From there he could get to the river and go wherever he pleased." Once on the ice the three boys skated around on the lake until they saw other skate marks.
Of course I allows both the black p'inter an' the Colonel's shorely due to drown a whole lot. "We gets across, the seven other mules an' me; an' the second he's skated out on the sand on his side, the drowned mule gets up an' sings as triumphant as I ever hears. Swimmin' onder the river don't wear on him a bit. "Then I goes scoutin' for the Colonel, but he's vanished complete.
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