Show skating lor lifo that suling skating beela in certain clr air Bamo thing ng snore more than a more elegant accomplishments accomplish menti well illustrato oil by two anecdotes told by the author of some entertaining 11 of quebec of 0 two settlers Bol tlora in tile tho far west went ille saved choir ivan ion by tile tho AM of their skates in jonii ewa the HIB backwoods man LA been I 1 by indiana wile who In soon goon after to torture him hi to death among lis lii baggage there happened to ile ba a n pair of skates anil and tile indians Ind iaus cut curiosity dosity wile SO no excited thit their choir captiva captian was wal told old to explain their kheir no nise ile ho led kit ii 0 chiptors cip a piers tors to ilia edge of 0 A wido wide lutie lake w ere the smooth too ioa stretched I 1 etched away an far nil ai the eye could see BOO and put tin the tha exciting the laug aughter liter of tile indians by tumbling about in ia a clumsy clamay manner mit lio he gradually increased his distance ili stanca from tile lie short shore till ho he nt at length contrived to get a hundred yards from them without arousing their when la he skill bleat oil ed away BS as fast ai he eon id and finally filially escaped OA the other settlor settler is ia said it to have boon skating alone ono one moonlight night und and weilu contemplating the ho ro aution of tho la in the tha dour clear ico ice anti and the tha vast mass of dark f crest forest our bar rounding the tha lake find and aw away a y is ia tho the background ho he suddenly Budd auly tits dia covered to his horror that tho the adjacent bank was lined with it a puck pack of 0 wolves he ha tit at oace 11 made tracel for home lot 01 ol Z lowed by those animals ani inala but ut the skater kept ahead and ona by ono ona tho the pack tailed off two or tile 0 a of tile alio foremost however ho kept but when they to close with the skater eki iter turning tarring addo ho he allowed allowe J them to pass him anil and after it 11 few nu success successful fal and visions attempts on ill the put part of tho ilia wolves lie ha I 1 in reaching lit afi s log lint in safety Bi fety cai aravia |