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Updated: May 6, 2025
With a jolly bonfire blazing on the bank, and the skaters going and coming all the while, the prospect is so alluring that it is indeed difficult for any lad to break away.
Every night it was black with skaters, while occasionally a group would spin away up the river under the dark, over-shadowing banks. The pond, however, was the centre of attraction. For several evenings Wee Andra had been furnishing hilarious entertainment for the village by his agonized efforts to skate.
It was an ideal place for the thrilling sport for there were a number of high places where experts could take high jumps, and lower slopes in plenty for the learners and the more timid, and great snowy fields beyond where the whiteness was broken by the gay-coloured caps and scarves of tobogganers and skaters.
"Yes, and from the expression on your face, old fellow, I'm of the opinion right now that you mean to have a look-in on that later on when the river is frozen again." Frank laughed and nodded. "Some of us have been talking it over. You know Clifford has been unbeaten in that line for years. They have the best skaters up there in the State, they claim.
Oh, what was her share of the bright, beautiful world? The spring came in with a quickening glory. A fortnight ago the snow was everywhere, the skaters were still out on the streams, the young fellows having rough snowballing matches, then suddenly one morning the white blanket turned a faint, sickly, soft gray, and withered.
A neighbouring farmer's wife had promised to have a roaring fire ready for the skaters when they should appear about five o'clock, and the farmer himself was to meet them at the river with his big sleigh. Clearly Judith could not skate to-day, so other plans were made for her.
And to this method Jennie, a leader among the younger girls, clung. At the starting shot for Miss Etching was not afraid of a pistol and used it to start the race the thirty-eight girls got away from the line without much confusion. The best skaters were quickly in the lead, so that there was little entanglement at the first stake. By that time the girls were strung out for some yards.
Across the dazzling blue arch of the sky the crow flapped, sending down his prophetic, jubilant note; the wind, as soft and sweet as April, stirred in his hair; the hills, deep in their dusky blue, seemed miles away; and the voices of the care-free skaters on the melting ice of the river below came to the ear subdued to a unity with the scene. Suddenly a fear seized upon the boy a horror!
It was going to hurt horribly, but if it only hurt him, it couldn't be said to matter. You couldn't have a safe plan that didn't hurt somebody, and as long as it didn't hurt the person it was made for, it could be counted a success. Davos began to descend upon the rink, first the best skaters Swedes, Russians, and Germans and then all the world.
"The skaters are so merry." "If thou wilt not coax to stay more than a moment." The child promised. As they were turning a corner a young man eyed them sharply. Primrose did not see him, and Patty hurried on, for he was a stranger. But he took some long strides and caught up to them. "It is Mistress Primrose Henry " The little girl turned.
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