Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 143
was a good dealless than half a century ago) the first skate meant agood deal of trouble. Nothing better than strap skates wereknown then, and even after those provoking straps, with theirmarvelous abilities for getting out of sight, had been found atlast, and fitted to their places, the work was… … CURVES OF THE DUTCH ROLL. sure to get filled up on the way with horrid little pebbles which.had to be painfully picked out again. And it was such a coldpiece of work, first screwing on the skates, then fitting thestraps, then buckling them up tight. Indeed many a time onewould become so chilled…
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