Show Ru A Young Mans Man's First Trial on n Snow Snow Shoes A YOUNG man who is spending his first winter in a country where snowshoes snowshoes snowshoes snow- snow shoes are used writes as follows They have considerable sport here here- J that they do not have bave elsewhere One is snow-shoeing snow and I might have a very interesting tale to tell if words would doit do doit it justice However to be really interested interested inter inter- ested one would necessarily have to be present and be an eye witness to the the- performance They got me on snowshoes snowshoes snow snow- shoes one day the first I was ever on and the first I ever ver saw was when I came here They started me down hill the longest long longest long long- est hill I ever saw in my life I didn't know how to manage them and they got the start start start-of of me as a matter of fact I r had to keep up with them for how could I do otherwise my feet were securely securely- fastened to the shoes I I got near the foot of the hill and I was making making- straight for a tree All the while the shoes were spreading apart Just as I was thinking of my sad fate I was rushing into one one- foot broke loose from its hold and theother the the- theother theother other shoe steered me off into a ditch I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall always believe it saved my life I W. W V V. |