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He is not so very much hurt, stunned a bit at first." "How was it?" said the other, breathing again, and pressing forward. "He was going down the drop. Captain Delamere was to push him off, which he did with a vengeance. He didn't mean any harm, though he don't like a bone in poor Bertie's body. However, the toboggin snapped in two from the concussion in landing.
Yet I can tell you that winter is our merriest time; for snow, the great leveller, has made all the roads, even the most rickety corduroy, smooth as a bowling-green; consequently sleighing and toboggin parties without end are carried on. 'That's a terribly hard word, remarked Arthur. 'It represents great fun, then, which isn't generally the case with hard words.
Having first selected the highest hill the neighbourhood affords, well covered with slippery frozen snow, two individuals who purpose forming the freight of the toboggin pose themselves, the foremost holding the reins, which, however, are more for effect than use, sitting between the feet of the hindmost traveller, who steers with his hands.
"I'll take myself down, anyhow," said Du Meresq, rather nettled; and, having dragged her toboggin up the hill, ran off to get another; but, in passing Cecil, found a moment to say "Don't let that young lunatic delude you down the jump. It is unfit for any girl but such a glutton as Lilla." "I haven't the slightest wish to try," said she, laughing. "Lilla's a witch. Just look at her now."
But he has twisted his ankle, and can't walk up the hill; so they are going to pull him up on a toboggin. I'll go and get your sleigh." "Are you sure it is nothing worse?" said Cecil, who could scarcely abandon her first impression that his neck was broken. "Quite. There he is, to answer for himself," as Bertie and his bearers crested the hill. She walked to meet them.
As a finger on the snow alters the course of the toboggin, and a nervous push makes it slue round, scattering the inmates, it is needless to say the tyro in front is admonished to preserve the most absolute immobility.
"Have a 'cock-tail, Miss Rolleston?" said Captain Wilmot, of the Fusiliers. "I have just made a capital one; and then may I steer you down on my toboggin?" Cecil accepted both propositions. "But do take mine, for I have never tried it yet." "What a beauty," said Lilla, enviously. "It doesn't look over strong, though; I shouldn't wonder if it broke in two.
It had red cord reins, and Cecil's monogram, neatly painted, on the outside. "We must show off our smart toboggin, I suppose; though where on earth we can put it in the cutter I can't think," said Du Meresq. "I had rather hold it on my lap than not take it.
Bertie was shot out and rolled to the bottom, which would not have mattered, only he struck his head against some snag or stone hidden by the snow. We looked down, but he didn't seem to move, and we got frightened. I had had nearly enough jumping, but I took Captain Delamere on my toboggin didn't trust him to steer, I can tell you, my dear and bumped down quite safe.
For a young lady with such severe ideas of constancy, you were pretty thick at the sleighing-party." There was something in this speech that annoyed Cecil, who turned it off with a short answer. It might have been that she did not like him so composedly contemplating such a possibility. Du Meresq said no more, perhaps because they were approaching the toboggin hill, or perhaps, like Dr.
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