The land of pluck; stories and sketches for young folk (1894)
Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Century Co. · leaf 35
ls .skimming so swiftly over the ice. As you may well believe, these flying, whizzing ice-boats always get the right of way, for nobody wouldwillingly come into collision with them. They seem toknow that their season is brief, at the best, and they makespeed while the ice shines. Now, there is a… … THE ICE-BOATS ARE OUT ! are provided with pikes for clearing a way through the ice,so that barges and other vessels may pass. Sometimesthey are rather small affairs, worked by hand, and some-times are large and heavy, and drawn by as many as O v v WINTER AND SUMMER 19 twenty or even thirty horses.…
Children's stories, American
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