The Seventeen Little Bears sat on the bank trying to fasten their skates.

Daddy Blake took off his skates, and then, with a long piece of fence rail, while he stood on the bank, the children's papa broke the ice around the edges of the air hole.

Hal and Mab carefully putting away their new skates, followed their father.

He looked high and low, but he could not find any skates.

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" She sat down on the bank and removed her skates.

Fly can't light arter Sam'l's cleanin' up nohaow; he's got ter skate.

There are lawns too lovely to bear the weight Of a troop of boys when they roller skate; There are porches fine that must never know The stamping of footsteps that come and go, But on every street there's a favorite place Where the children gather to romp and race,

Up in the Litchfield hills, where the winter set in early and lasted late, Betty had learned to use her skates well, and she and her brother Oliver had been the best skaters in the township when she was hardly more than a child.

have a care; if you turn like that you will surely catch your skate in mine.

Many of the boys brought their skates to school and never went home for lunch, but just ate a couple of sandwiches in order to spend as much as possible of the noonday pause on the ice.

Dorothy Culbertson (W); 16Jun66; R387698. CUMMINGS, DIANE. Figure skating as a hobby.

We will practice our skating a little longer, and then go home.

How proud were the young amateur blacksmiths when the kind-hearted owner of the shop gave them liberty to heat and pound a bit of nail-rod, to mend a skate or a sled-runner, or sharpen a pronged fish- spear!

A really ingenious bicycle or tricycle always found in him a ready purchaser; and he had patented a roller skate and a railway brake.

" "Or do as that explorer who is to set out in search of the north polehave a combination skate and boat, so when fairly going we can keep straight on.

They procured skates and glided off hand in hand, equally proficient, equally practised, maybe on this same lake; for both had learned to skate in Russia.

Observing this island of Bohio to be very large, that its land and trees resembled Spain, that his people caught, among other fish, many skates, soles, and other fishes like those in Spain, and that nightingales and other European birds were heard to sing in the month of December, at which they much admired; the admiral named this land La Espannola, which we now corruptly write Hispaniola.

" Andy no sooner saw the skates than his face brightened up with the most evident satisfaction.

Put in a fish-kettle all the above ingredients, and simmer the skate in them till tender.

Cleanse and skin the skate, lay it in a fish-kettle, with sufficient water to cover it, salted in the above proportion.

All skating is done upon the numerous lakes, and often during the long nights of the winter hundreds of people, young and old, will gather at an early hourit gets dark at four o'clock in the afternoonand spend the entire night skating by moonlight.

Even the snow came in for a share of her disapprobation this morning, because it would spoil the skating, as if the Lord had no other plans to further than just to give her an afternoon's amusement!

"I am, Daddy," answered Hal, pulling on his red mittens, and swinging his skates by a strap over his shoulder.

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