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Chapter VIII. 



daylight lasts. It is necessary. If anything happened 

 that obliged us to make our way home over the ice, I am 

 afraid some of the company would be a terrible hind- 

 rance to us, unpractised as they are now. Several of 

 them are first-rate snow-shoers, but five or six of them 



SNOW-SHOE PRACTICE (SEPTEMBER 28TII, 1894). 



(By If- Egulhts, from a Photograph.) 



would soon be feeling the pleasures of learning ; if they 

 had to go out on a long course, and without snow-shoes, 

 it would be all over with us. 



'After this we used to go out regularly in a body. 

 Besides being good exercise, it was also a great pleasure ; 

 every one seemed to thrive on it, and they all became 



