Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 432
se, already far behind.Yet it was impossible to keep some feeling ofexultation from her heart, even though she chidedherself for it. Even as she exulted in the swift motion andshook with a little shiver of pleasure at herspeed, her face blanched. Seeming an answerto the loud ring of skates on… … 1(1 IT S NOW OR NEVER/ SHE THOUGHT, AS SHE REACHED THE BEND OF THE RIVER/ 301 302 SKATE-SAILING FOR LIFE Well she knew, from many a camp-fire storytold by hunter and trapper as well as from thrill-ing tales her father had told, what a pack ofwinter-starved wolves may mean to the unwarytraveler. One…
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