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The result was, that we all resolved ourselves into a conglomerate of toboggans and men, which went shooting and struggling over the smooth lake for fifty yards or upwards at the rate of twelve miles an hour, if not more. This, of course, afforded unutterable delight to the rest of our men, and to Waboose and her mother; as well as to several Indians, who had just arrived.
She asked so eagerly that he looked at her, and then saw how worn and tired, her face was; and the words which he was intending to speak, died on his lips. "Look at those asses of people on toboggans," he said brusquely. "Could you manage to enjoy yourself in that way? That might do you good." "Yes," she said; "but it would not be any pleasure to me."
And besides getting time for the mild, and the rivers burst, and the water runs on top of the ice, and afraid that we could do no travelling in Susan Brook, and the mountains so rough and steep we could not haul toboggans over them, and have to travel on the river. So we got started in the morning from Northwest River on our way up. March 8th.
She stopped to watch the toboggans flying down the road. And the Disagreeable Man went his own solitary way, a forlorn figure, with a face almost expressionless, and a manner wholly impenetrable. He had lived nearly seven years at Petershof, and, like many others was obliged to continue staying there if he wished to continue staying in this planet.
His angel'd never be restin' easy in heaven wi'out comin' t' see us, for he knows how sore we longs t' see un." The mother drew the child to her heart and sobbed. Day after day the Indians travelled to the northward, drawing their goods after them on toboggans, over frozen rivers and lakes, or through an ever scantier growth of trees.
He had settled that fact for himself very positively before going to bed the night before. "In the first place," he decided, "Red might need me to smuggle him some grub or something and I got to be on hand. In the second place I had enough trying to ride two slippery sticks yesterday. Split myself in two for ten miles on a pair of devil's toboggans? Thanks awfully.
They are produced by otters, which have a curious habit of sliding downwards for their amusement much as human beings are accustomed to do in Canada in their toboggans. To do this, they lie on their bellies, with their fore-legs bent backwards, and giving themselves an impetus with their hind-legs, down they glide, at a swift rate, upon the ice.
All through the winter season the various trading posts of Canada are constantly visited by numbers of Indian trappers, many of whom have travelled hundreds of miles on their snow-shoes with their heavily laden toboggans. In Canada and northward the toboggan is in very extensive use, both for purposes of traffic and amusement.
The Indian referred to, however, has learned something of the Eskimo language, and also a little English English that you cannot always understand, but must take for granted. He was very proud of his accomplishments. The Indian hauls his loads in winter on toboggans, which he manufactures himself with his ax and crooked knife the only woodworking tools he possesses.
In preparing for the winter hunt it was more convenient for these men to take their supplies to their tilts by boat up the Grand River than to haul them in on toboggans on the spring ice, as nearly every other hunter, whose trapping ground was not upon so good a waterway, was compelled to do, and so it was that they were now at the trading post selecting their outfits preparatory to starting inland before the very cold winter should bind the river in its icy shackles.
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