Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 241
220 HOW TO MAKE AN ICE-BOAT. [January, HOW TO MAKE AN ICE-ftOAT. By J. H. Hubbard. The sport of sailing on the ice has within a fewyears attracted considerable attention on our north-ern rivers and lakes, and seems likely to increase.It is an amusement well adapted to big boys, being hour with a… … exciting, requiring skill, and certainly not moredangerous than skating. It is even more fasci-nating than yachting, without the danger whichalways attends the latter pursuit. A small ice-boatthat a boy can build will sail ten to twenty miles an Having seen some unsuccessful attempts at ice-boats…
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