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Updated: May 29, 2025
Rockets flew, signals of distress fluttered briskly from the foremast; a futile language in that merciless raging of the elements. In the steerage it had grown still. But from the port side came a peculiar, persistent, unbroken sound, resembling the shouting and screaming of a crowd on toboggan-slides and merry-go-rounds at a village fair.
As you admitted, he generally comes home dressed in rags, and very seldom brings anything with him. Why do you do it?" Weston laughed in a rather curious fashion. "Oh," he said, "don't you know? Did you never feel, even in winter in Montreal, when you had skating-rinks, toboggan-slides, snow-shoe meets, and sleigh-rides to keep you amused, that it was all growing tiresome and very stale?
The girl's eyes had a wistful look as she answered: "We spent our first winter in Montreal, and we had some friends who were very kind to us. I like to look back upon those first few months in Canada." Gordon nodded. "Oh, yes," he replied. "I know sleigh-rides, snowshoe meets, skating-rinks, toboggan-slides.
Now everything has changed; Ottawa has trebled in size since I first knew it, and on revisiting it twenty-five years later, I found that it had become very "smart" indeed, with elaborate houses and gorgeous raiment. Rideau Hall had two open-air skating-rinks in its own grounds, two imposing toboggan-slides, and a covered curling-rink.
We drove out to the Island for luncheon, and on the way we stopped and coasted in a curious Russian sledge from the top of a high place, something like our toboggan-slides, only this sledge was guided from behind by a peasant on skates. A Russian meal always begins with a side-table of hors d'oeuvres, called "zakouska."
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