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Nearly the whole winter there is excellent sleighing on the Bay of Quinte; and on the land we have weeks of good sleighing for days in most other places. This is owing to the influence of a large sheet of frozen water interposed between us and Lake Ontario, which is never frozen.
If you happen to turn up a corner of the carpet with your foot, it gives out a flash, and your hair crackles as you brush it. Breakfast is always hot, be the weather what it may. The coffee is scalding, and the buckwheat cakes steam when the cover is taken off. Your host's little boy asks whether he may go coasting to-day, and his sisters tell you what days the schools will all go sleighing.
"I guess you'd feel queer if Patricia Levine had once taken hold of you," was the quick response, and Valerie ceased teasing. "Dorothy knows a jolly sleighing song," said Nancy. "Sing it! Sing it!" "Oh, please sing it, Dorothy," clamored eager voices. "Sing it with me, Nancy," Dorothy said. "Your alto makes it fine."
Elizabeth Eliza was inclined to turn back, but Hiram said they would find the sleighing better farther up among the hills. The armchair joggled about a good deal, and the Christmas-tree creaked behind her; and Hiram was obliged to stop occasionally and tie in the chair and the tree more firmly.
All New York was there the crush was awful, the music excellent, the supper heavenly! Sir Victor likes us Americans so much; but then who could help liking us? Oh, it has been a charming winter parties somewhere every night. Nilsson singing for us, some sleighing, and skating no end. I have had the loveliest skating costume, of violet velvet, satin and ermine words can't do it justice. "Hark!
Getting tired of civilization, and wanting to get back to the ice?" "Ha, ha, ha! Yes, master, just so. After I see Paris and Copenhagen, I do very well, keep quite satisfied. But when I shut up in large city like C., I think it too much. I feel lonesome, want to get back to the wild'ness." "And how does Carlo learn sleighing?" "O, he does well enough.
The object of most of the young men who are out sleighing seems to be to pass the sleigh in front of them, so that some very smart racing is usually to be seen along the Avenue drive. As might be expected from the extent and wealth of its population, Chicago is well supplied with places of amusement. I observe that Christine Nilsson is here at present, and she is an immense favourite.
At the Kings' she daily saw all she wanted, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.
"Oh, yes," he spoke very dryly and looked very blank, "please tell him if the storm passes, and the snow lies, I wish you and he would go sleighing to-morrow. I'll call at half-past two." "Thank you; I'll tell him." Bagley summoned up as natural a "good night" as possible, and went.
This inaugurates the carnival season when sleighing and merrymaking parties in both town and country form one unbroken round of pleasure."
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