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Updated: June 28, 2025
He yells with all the power of his lungs and takes no heed of holes and lumps as he speeds along towards life, safety, and home. Then a dog runs up barking. Behind him comes a man. Nansen hurries to meet him, and both wave their caps. Whoever this traveller with the dog may be, he has good reason for astonishment at seeing a jet-black giant come jolting on skis straight from the North Pole.
To learn skiing we should select the slope of a hill not very steep and with no dangerous rocks or snags to run foul of. The best snow conditions are usually found two or three days after it has fallen. Fresh snow is too light to offer good skiing and snow with a crust is also bad. In running with skis on the level ground a long, sweeping stride is used somewhat after the fashion of skating.
"Why, it's only five years ago I was hearing that you were the best little lady on skis and skates at the West-Highlands." Her eyelids quivered at the word. "That year yes," she said and averted her face. "You mean " I had to prod, there was no other way about it "that you only stayed one year?" She nodded. "My Freshman year prep school." "And then ?" "I was needed here." "Your father ?"
Often she was thus seen, in the afternoon; the scarlet made a bright moving patch on the vast expanses of snow. Once, at some distance from the village, two tale-tellers observed a man on skis careering in the neighbourhood of the sleigh. It was Captain Deverax. The flirtation, therefore, was growing warmer and warmer. The hotels hummed with the tidings of it.
A really good one costs about Frs. 12.00 or Frs. 14.00, though inferior steel may be had for a great deal less. It should have a ring and be attached to the belt. Dark spectacles or goggles should be included in equipment. A mending outfit is often needed, and at least one member of every party going on tour should carry something with which to mend broken Skis.
She saw the broken imprints of the Canadian snowshoes, the smooth tracks of the skis, and demanded sharply: "Which men wore the webs?" "Them tennis racket things? MacKelvey and one of his thieves." He looked at her wonderingly. What difference did that make? But Wanda took no time for explanations.
After this episode Gunther resumed his impassive manner, nor did any other of their outdoor sports draw from him the strange, exultant look he had given Mary in the sleigh. But his feats on the toboggan slide and with his skis were sufficiently daring to supply the party with liberal thrills.
His baggage included not only his skis and medicine-case but a violin as well. For the doctor was a musical genius; and it had been his proud achievement to construct his own instrument, which friends vowed was as excellent as a Stradivarius. Often of a winter evening his music was more sought after than his medicine. Mamie was delighted. "So there's going to be a party to-night," she exclaimed.
A little after noon, the sheriff with his men left for the Bar L-M. Garth assured them that Wayne could hardly get away before the late afternoon or the following morning, for the reason that when he left the ranch there had been a number of things yet to do before the place was closed up for the winter. MacKelvey and one of the men with him went on webs; Hume and the other man on skis.
The suggestion was reasonable, and the fascination of the sport had taken firm hold of her. Anne smiled and yielded. She set her feet together and let herself go. Almost at the same instant a sound that was like the bellow of an infuriated bull reached her from above. She tried to turn, but the skis were already slipping over the snow.
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