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Identifier: huntonsnowshoes00elli (find matches)
Title: A hunt on snow shoes
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Prittie, Edwin J
Subjects: Children's stories, Canadian
Publisher: Chicago, Philadelphia (etc.) The J. C. Winston Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nd what a strange appearance the crazyMoose made! His long, powerful legsbranched out and danced over the snow, in away peculiarly their own; his long, heavy bear-skin streamed and fluttered in the wind, asdid the luxuriant hair of his head. Thelatter, together with the shoulders, was thrownfar in advance, after the manner of a swiftrunner, and he never once looked behind him. After discharging the two guns of the lads,to prevent their use against him, he had delib-erately placed his own in their hands, without aword of warning. Surely everything he didwas consistent with his character as a lunatic. Little danger, either of the lads attemptingto harm him. It is no trifling thing for a per-son to take the life of another, and great asthey believed their peril, they had no dispo-sition to injure their captor. For fullv an hour did the Moose continue «/ flying over the snow, without abating a jot ofhis speed, or looking back to see that his lug-gage was safe. Most of this time he seemed
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The wind whistled by their ears. THZ NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATI LIGHTENING THE SLED 171 to be following some kind of trail that ledthrough an open stretch of woods, where thetrees were far apart and devoid of under-growth. Occasionally the sleigh grazed the trunk ofa pine; but the motion of the curious being sug-gested those of a bird that sails through aforest without risk of striking the hundreds oflimbs and twigs which interpose before him. Not once did he waver or act as if he wereuncertain of the direction he ought to pursue;but after steaming forward for the time men-tioned, a gradual slackening of his speed wasobservable, indicating either that he was nearhis journeys end, or that his strength was fail-ing—the former supposition being the moreprobable, and the one believed by the ladsthemselves. They were not kept long in waiting a,s tothe meaning of the action of their captor. A short turn was made to the left, and whenthey shot down a steep bank

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