At the critical moment we were fortunately able to come to Bjaaland's aid; had we been a moment later the sled with its thirteen dogs would have disappeared in the seemingly bottomless pit.

So they abandoned their sled for awhile, and when they had forged a way, came back, and one pulling, the other pushing, lifting, guiding, between them, with infinite pains they got their burden to the end of the beaten track, left it, and went ahead againtravelling three miles to make one.

It had been very nice, and neighbourly, of Nicholas, as long ago as the 1st of December, to bring the big, new, cornucopia-shaped trap down on his sled on the way to the Ikogimeut festival.

Constance Howard had seen so little snow in her life spent in California that she was very much excited about it and had bought her sled in August to be ready for the first fall.

"Mr. Harper, of the firm of Harper & Ladue, went up this river with sleds in the fall of 1872 a distance of fifty or sixty miles.

But the other man's business was to guide the sled from behind and keep it on the trail.

" Down the steep hill went the bob-sled to the great Missouri River, where it took the straight, smooth road on the snow-laden ice.

Betty had a sled of her own, too, a graceful, light affair her uncle had sent her.

"They pull my sled about winters, Hidden Creek.

The teacher, after watching some time for an opportunity to humble him, one day overhears a difficulty among the boys, and, looking out of the window, observes that he is taking away a sled from one of the little boys to slide down hill upon, having none of his own.

He was, he averred, too stout to skate and too heavy for the little iron sleds on the ice-hills.

At other times by main strength the men lifted or dragged the sled over bad places.

Bob found Betty's sled, after some search, where they had left it between two trees, and together they began to thread the tortuous maze of the cave again, Bob going ahead and dragging the sled after him.

They are called huskies and they are so strong and so fleet of foot that they pull sleds for hours across the frozen lakes at almost the speed of a running horse.

I had two sleds with me which were made in Juneau specially for the work of getting over the mountains and down the lakes on the ice.

The long lash swung out over the leaders as Dan headed the old mail-sled across the drifted right-of-way of the Great Missouri and Eastern.

He sat immovable in the round-shouldered attitude learned in pulling a hand-sled against a gale from the Pole.

" If you take this trip in winter, however, you have to purchase a sled at Juneau, and sled it over the frozen waterways to Dawson City.

" The Colonel went on in front, breaking trail in the newfallen snow, the Boy pulling the sled behind him as lightly as if its double burden were a feather.

Oliver took the snow-shovels and the other tools, and returned them to their proper places, and then drew up his sled into a corner of the wagon-house.

I had, however, succeeded in securing the services of an excellent hand to chop, and help me load, and had also engaged a horse of one neighbor, and a horse and sled of another, and was ready on Monday morning to commence my job.

The next morning, when they came to digging the sled out of the last night's snow-drift, the Boy found to his horror that he was weakeryes, a good deal.

"And you leave your grub behind, to be eaten by a lot of" "I can't stand here argyfying with the thermometer down to" The Boy began to drag the sled over the snow.

The half mile was quickly travelled and he whirled the sled through the large gateway and around the house to the kitchen door.

Each front rank man inserts the muzzle of his rifle under the front end of the ridge and holds the rifle upright, sling to the front, heel of butt on the ground beside the bayonet.