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Indeed, the first of Tom's school friends would have skated right down upon them had they not thus been warned. "Keep back!" Ruth cried. "We can get them out. Don't come nearer!" Tom seconded her warning, too. But mainly he gave himself up to the work of aiding the two in the water.
"Come buy a sweet cake; it costs but a cent, Come buy, come buy, from the man in the tent." Vrouw Vedder said, "I promised a cake to the one who beat in the race. We'll go in here and get it." So they went to the tent. They bought two cakes, and each ate half of one. Kat broke the cakes and gave them to the others, because she won the race. When they had eaten the cakes, they skated on.
Every boy knows at least every boy who has skated or ventured upon a frozen pond that by creeping on hands and knees, or, more certain still, by sprawling along on the breast, ice may be passed over, that would not bear the same boy in an erect attitude.
It was of course now part of his creed that he had loved Milly Flaxman from the first only he had never known her well till that Christmas Vacation when they had skated so much together. Later on, such disturbing events as engagement and marriage had seemed to him enough to explain any changes he had observed in her.
Widdrington, after the Battle of Chevy Chace, could not have skated, because he had no legs, poor fellow!
He told himself that he was fortunate when he discovered Claire, with Lionel on one side of her and Ponsonby on the other; he had wanted the help of an audience; now he was going to have one. Claire saw him before the others did, and skated swiftly across to him. "But why don't you put your skates on?" she said, pointing to them in his hand. "You're not much good there, you know, on the bank."
Fanny was a novice in the Art, and this was her first day this winter. She skated timidly, holding Peter very tightly. She went into the dearest little panics for fear of tumbles, and uttered the most musical screams and laughs.
Then the frost set in, and all the canals and sluggish streams were sheets of ice, to which the market people skated, flying along upon the ice like birds.
Frank got his stout friend to be on his side, but he generally chose boys. He got Ernest and all his schoolfellows, except Lemon, who joined Charles, and there were several other boys who skated pretty well, and, as he said, looked plucky.
K 's little hut and scrap of a garden and paddock gave the one touch of life, or possibility of life, to this desolate region. In spite of all scenic wet blankets we tried hard to be gay, and no one but myself would acknowledge that we found the lonely grandeur of our "rink" too much for us. We skated away perseveringly until we were both tired and hungry, when we returned to Mr.
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