The Badminton Magazine 1899-12: Vol 9 Iss 53 (1899)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 40
without a rider, its perilous career towards the bottom of the valley. Once this obstacle lies behind him, the tobogganer, like the newly-made husband who telegraphed to his friends at St. Moritz ‘safely over the church leap,’ feels that the worst is over, though possibly in both cases there is a… … straight across the high road, past Bulpett’s corner, on to the Cresta leap, a sudden descent where the machine, if it is travelling at great speed, sometimes leaves the ground altogether and flies through the air for a few yards till it reaches the flat at the end of the run. The record of 1 min.…
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