What to do and how to do it; the American boys handy book (1920)
Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 459
430 IVinter. Lace the shoes on the feet, after the manner shown in thediagram (Fig. 324), and you have a pair of very serviceablecrusting shoes, that is, shoes to use when a crust has formedover the surface of a deep snow which is not of sufficient strength … to prevent the unprotected shoe from crushing through at eachstep, but which will bear a snow-shoer safely, on account of hisiweight being distributed over a larger space (see illustration). These shoes can also be used in travelling over boggy groundin the summer. Notes on Snow-shoes. 43?: Again…
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