Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 565
lhardly run on anything less solid than the beatensurface of a road. It certainly is a poor racer.Next in order of slowness comes what is locallytermed the American toboggan —a flat boardnailed on two solid wooden runners, shod withsheet-iron. This also runs badly except on aroad, is a cumbersome… … THE BEGINNING OF THE SLIDE AT DAVOS.
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