| Show STUDENT LIFE and too strong to force the canoe through toes for propellors This was slow reached the shore tied the cord to the raft and he traveling but 1 The next morning found us in the same plight minus the beans and drew it back Then he rolled the cord up into crackers Things began to get a neat coil as he drew it in and serious in earnest All of a sudden uncle’s eyes laid it on the ice took the free end lighted up and he said he had an into the boat and was busy for a idea lie took the long braces few moments next he rose up and from the sides of the boat lashed with all his strength threw somethem to the oars forming a recthing out towards me It was his he had tangular frame and then proceeded large hunting knife that to tear large strips of birch bark tied to the cord and it slid across the smooth ice to the shore I from the inside of the canoe These he fastened to the frame picked up the knife he mounted the making an ice raft about four feet raftand with his toes as propellers wide and six feet long that would and me tugging at the cord he soon spread our weight over a larger landed safe on shore From here we proceeded homearea of the thin ice He said it was not safe for both ward though our progress was of us to get on at the same time seriously retarded by lack of food and by the exposure of the night but suggested that I go first When I asked how I would get before Luckily however we came across and how he would get the upon a party of native hunters raft back he said that was all who supplied us with dried venihome where planned He placed me on my son enough to last us stomach on the raft gave me one we arrived my uncle none the for the hardend of a large roll of strong cord worse apparently that we had been using to tie up ships though I shall never forget L IV P hides with and told me to use my them |
