| Show C on n 41 l ah in one of the treat real winter sports port ie Is coasting As A the on snowshoes ow shoes in use in that country ar are I 1 long ong nar or row strips trip of ash wood the wearer ot of them ie Is able to slid 1 over the abl t a mow snow whenever he has ha to descend a alope slope an english sportsman thui describes de how flow ho he attempted a coast of thia this kind I 1 found a most fas fascinato cinat ing hill 1 long and not too steep bleep at the bottom waa was a river frozen over O 0 ter of course some ten yards in 1 width I dt h I 1 should have to turn at right angles and run the level surface of the ice in to avoid darting up the tb opposite bank and slipping down again backward I 1 shot the hill very sue els fully reaching the river with a terrific impetus but I 1 could not turn to the left quickly enouch and wa wall carried with irresistible force straight up the batik bin opposite the impetus took me everal several feet up the steep la in elane but when at lat last my shoe shoes abruptly ceased to move I 1 fell back ward ard being on a steep bleep alope slope my head rested much lower than lay iny feet and as theae u were in snowshoes snow shoes I 1 wai was quite unable to recover myself when I 1 realized this fact a chill ran through my tram ahat hat in the world bould should I 1 do mu mus I 1 really lie ile there anil and tarve I 1 should certainly freeze to death long 1 before the keepers could track anil and deleme 1 me for many min uter lay frantic exertions exer tlona were una unavailing Tail and I 1 an as seriously 11 losing heart when fortunately the instep trap strap of one of the shoes gave way having got one shoe off I 1 succeeded after fur ther violent struggles in freeing myself of the Us second since that day I 1 hae hitie been careful how I 1 shoot hills with mith narrow riven rivers ct at the fool |
