He had been baptized with a French name, and his son after him, but no Chippewa of pure blood and name looked habitually as he did into those whirlpools called the chutes, where the slip of a paddle meant death.

There was the Dutch top to be set twirling, the wooden horses of the merry-go-round to be mounted; they had to dash down the great chute and take a turn in the Venetian gondolas, to be weighed in the machine and touch the arm of the "human torpedo.

TOMBER, faire une chute; descendre; devenir; sauter.

So they found a place where antelope were plenty, and set up on the prairie long lines of rock piles, or of bushes, so as to form a chute like a >.

All his life Lear had been lubricating the chute that was to give him a quick ride out into that black midnight storm.

They sat all day on their little benches, high up in the great black building, with their eyes fixed always on the shallow streams of broken coal passing down the iron-sheathed chutes, and falling out of sight below them; and it was their duty to pick the particles of slate and stone from out these moving masses, bending constantly above them as they worked.

But the big things of life are crammed into minutes, and Time was bringing the most thrilling one of our lives toward us as we scrambled up the chute.

When everything was in full blast, the great man would appearstepping out of a bathing-machine, or falling out of a hansom-cab, or sliding down a chute on a toboggan.

Then I taken a coal chute on the Rock Island and run it for four years.