Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 491
AN ESKI.AIO ri> 468 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. [April, the snow. Even tlie grown people occasionally usethese primitive sledges when dragging their effectsover the smooth salt-water ice near the shoreline of the sea. The snow-knife, which I repre-sented among the tools that are used to build… … A SLED MADE OF ICE. great weight: the bottoms of the sledge-runnersare always perfectly smooth and slippery, being ofpure ice; and when the sledge party is on hardand level snow, but little pulling is required —much less, in fact, than one would think — tomake rapid progress with such a bulky and…
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