. Review of reviews and world's work. entering, and to increase the warmth ofthe interior, the deep snow is heaped up outsidethe tent and pressed against the sides. Just before the icy, northern dawn the menare called forth with bugles, and it is well worthseeing when a whole regiment of men stoop tofasten on their ski. The thing is done in a mo-ment, and the men lined up as if by magic wait-ing for orders. Sometimes, if the maneuversare very near Christiania, one may see a largeparty of men suddenly shoulder their strangeand apparently cumbersome footgear and marchdown to the palace over a ha
. Review of reviews and world's work. entering, and to increase the warmth ofthe interior, the deep snow is heaped up outsidethe tent and pressed against the sides. Just before the icy, northern dawn the menare called forth with bugles, and it is well worthseeing when a whole regiment of men stoop tofasten on their ski. The thing is done in a mo-ment, and the men lined up as if by magic wait-ing for orders. Sometimes, if the maneuversare very near Christiania, one may see a largeparty of men suddenly shoulder their strangeand apparently cumbersome footgear and marchdown to the palace over a hard road, on whichit would not be possible to use the ski to ad-vantage. As is the case with the Alpine troops of Italy,France, and Switzerland, there are sham battlesbetween the armies of the snows. A wholecountry-side may be attacked and defended, andoften enough heavy field guns are biought intoaction, on which occasion deep tracks must bedug out of the snow to allow of the guns beingplaced in position. The gunners are directed in.
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