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first-rate snovv-shoers, but five or six of them 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; 



SNOW-SHOE PRACTICE (SEPTEMBER 28, 1 894) 



(By H . Egidius, froiii a PliotograpJi) 



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

 accustomed to the use of the shoes on this ground, even 

 though they often got them broken in the unevennesses 

 of the pressure-ridges ; we just patched and riveted them 

 together to break them again. 



" Monday, October ist. We tried a hand-sledge to- 



