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Updated: June 28, 2025
Leon soon had a steaming hot supper on the table. First of all, Reade swallowed a cupful of coffee. Then he began his supper. "I wonder if Ferrers can get back tonight?" Tom mused, after the meal. "He might, but a doctor couldn't get here tonight, unless he, too, could move fast on skis," Leon replied. "Anyway, I'm not as worried as I was," sighed Reade. The door opened, and Alf Drew entered.
"This method of travelling across country on skis, when there is deep snow, is hundreds of years old," said Fru Ekman, who had come to send the twins away for more fun, while she took her place again beside Karen. "Men were skiing in Scandinavia as long ago as old Roman times, and Magnus the Good, who defeated the Roman legions, had a company of ski-soldiers.
The figure on skis was waiting motionless by the roadside. It ran smoothly up to him and stopped. "Dramatic, wasn't it?" smiled Nap. "Did you think you were going to escape without another word?" "I had almost begun to think so," she admitted, smiling also. He stooped to take off the skis, then stepped to the door. He leaned towards her. There was no faintest sign of cynicism in his face that day.
From one side of the cutter a pair of skis hung outward. "That's Jim Ferrers and the doctor from Dugout," Tom breathed. "But who can the other lot of people be." A pung, drawn also by a pair of horses, contained five men. Jim was quickly on hand to explain matters. "I've brought Dr. Scott. He'll have to see Hazelton quickly, and then get back to Dugout," Jim declared.
He didn't mind doing this of course, if necessary; only if he had to do it to everybody in the hotel it might become monotonous, and he had a nervous fear that consumption was rather a cad's disease. Fortunately he had got his skates, and he supposed there'd be toboggans and skis. He would see everybody in hell before he would share a table.
Not knowing better, I used to try to run in gouties or rubber snow-boots which slipped about inside the binding so that I had absolutely no control. This did not make much difference, as I knew nothing of the art and only used the Skis as a freak on days off from tobogganing. I knew nothing of wax, and when the Skis stuck, they stuck, and I thought it a poor game.
In the meantime, Ski Clubs were also being formed in the Black Forest and other parts of Germany, as well as in Austria. Doctor Nansen, in his book about Greenland, described the use of Skis for Arctic exploration and his accounts fired a great many more people to try the game.
Here I propose to describe the equipment which I know, from experience, to be useful. Skis can be bought in England or in Switzerland. One or two English firms, such as Lillywhite, which really take pains to obtain the best possible quality of goods, may be trusted to provide Norwegian Skis, but there are also several makers of good Skis in Switzerland.
Sometimes, as one inadvertently steps on the Skis ahead, a gruff word is flung back and the trespasser is wise who stops, pretending to attend to his binding, or to look at the view the view is usually worth looking at, too, as there is usually something to see.
A Ski with its whole surface flattened to the slope is bound to slip especially on hard snow. By standing upright as you go uphill and keeping the ankles straight, the Skis will be edged in the right way. A quick way of getting up a steep slope is side-stepping. As you stand with your Skis horizontal across the slope, lift the upper foot and place it on the slope a few inches higher.
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