New-York tribune., 1910-02-06
Winter Sports -Br-r-r-r!
C0E-Eag1 67cR, page I

/ Confined
with eight ME people -four Of them pretty
-r-- persons. F.. some OF them rel ed 10 ne
-e-----ss-E -----1st--g their lives TO my L Erac-
sod. al--gU--l--t1r-rl. trembling hand--ands,
mean. Il took both hands, and I could have
--=el ~ least four more
The pre--r--g-is course 4 was going 10 say
--e pe-De--lc---a- COurse) took N three cross
streets and wound up at Z high butte over
looking al Ice C-0gged river. HenCefOrth and
forever. whenever I think I can use a night
mare, l shall revert 10 that experience. At each
cross street. gong 1t the rate Of hundred and
II --E-s-E miles Al hour, !. SteerSCal, missed
heavy trucks. loaded with scrap iron, or safes,
IT structural steel, and each drawn by from
-l-r 70 SIX rough shOd PerCherOns about twenty
hands nigh and with long hair round their
-eC-gcks-ar each cross street | missed trucks
Ike those by The width OF . BIllikens hand,
and when, ~ the bottom. I pulled Up on the
butte CverhaugIng The ice Clogged river, which
looked 70 be about twelve thousand feet below,
! had a margin. Al the front edges OF the run
ners- Of almost an eighth Of al inch
Ny passengers IleSperadOS, as all Young peO-
pie are. voted me- = colossal success as q sled
steers-lzl and said / could act As their steers
men Tor The remainder OF the afternoon and
evening They were n fact. 50 enthusiastic
over my ulgrrv that-the Vo-L fellows being
pretty busy sparkling the glrls-they per4LItted
me u drag the sled, which wasn't much more
than twelve feet long. up 10 the top Of the hill
almost bv rnvseIf. Now. that dragging the sled
back 70 the top OF the hill IS the measliest feat
u-e II coasung, even when YOU re young enough
. weigh II at say. about nIuetv-five pounds.
but when, tier = somewhat sedeutaTv life YOU
essay to drag . sled built for eIgnt, and two
hundred and twenty-five pounds. up an almost
perpendicular incline about four squares long,
why
Well. I got the sled up there all right that
once, but when they looked round tor their
steersman, IOi he had vanished Their steers
man. seIZlng upon moment when they hap
Dened 70 De looking the other way, had picked
up his mOCcasIns, IN q way OF speaking and
strealled, pan-Inglv, for the shelter he had 50
left an hour OF so before.
For the remainder Of the declining afternoon
the steersuan did his cOastIng as cOast1ng, eX-
-epr by natural born coasters and children
ought 70 be done, JEz., by proxy. He enjoyed
the coastlng keenly, gazing at II out OF a warm,
glgHv room. with large glass dish OF apples on
the table and the cat blinking dreaully before
the Ieapl1g. swapping FIRE Thus enVIrOned- he
.-1-G the COasIIng spectacle interesting and
C. Larlllug. the rosy checks Of the r1aIdeTs, YOU
know, and those bright cOlOred knitted caps
with the long OveThang1ng taSsels they were
wearing. and the merry, merry Iah1teT OF the
yav Ch5lled-tO-the-bOne coasters, and the putty,
horrible struggles Of the imposed-uPon coasters
who were delegated 70 drag the sleds back up
the hill, and the subtle, beautifully finished
acting q all Of EN- IN trying 10 make believe
that they were having a stupendously glorious
time a-cOastIngl
Believe me. there are few sports so dlvertIIg,
so satisfying, 50 well-beIngly agreeable, as
watching other sufferers COastlng, when you
Yourself have the proper Investiture of warmth
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