The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 449
is, there would not be manyof them on the ice. As it hap-pens, there is almost always abrother or cousin — sometimesone who stands in a still moretender relation—only too glad toundertake the education of thefair beginner. A strong hand,with the assistance of a strong arm, in reserve for cases of… … going alone; but, in these cases, who could be ungallantenough to complain of the delay ? If the truth were known,there is not much reluctance shown sometimes to prolong it in-definitely. As for those unlucky maidens for whom no such assist-ance is forthcoming, there ia often nothing for it but…
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