. My strange rescue, and other stories of sport and adventure in Canada. is TOBOGGANING. 75 to be young enough to thoroughly enjoy the tobogganingseason. The toboggan has many advantages over the sled suchas is used for coasting. Wherever a sled can go, a tobog-gan can go also, while on many a hill that offers splendidtobogganing, a sled would be quite useless. Again, it ismuch lighter than the sled, which means that you do nothave to work half so hard for your fun. A third advan-tage is its safety, more especially in the hands of has no sharp iron-shod ends to make ugly gashes inl
. My strange rescue, and other stories of sport and adventure in Canada. is TOBOGGANING. 75 to be young enough to thoroughly enjoy the tobogganingseason. The toboggan has many advantages over the sled suchas is used for coasting. Wherever a sled can go, a tobog-gan can go also, while on many a hill that offers splendidtobogganing, a sled would be quite useless. Again, it ismuch lighter than the sled, which means that you do nothave to work half so hard for your fun. A third advan-tage is its safety, more especially in the hands of has no sharp iron-shod ends to make ugly gashes inlittle legs. Tobogganing has its perils, of course, and Imight, if I chose, tell some experiences that would perhapscause a nervous thrill; but what sport is absolutely freefrom danoer ? And since Mark Twain has earned thegratitude of us all by proving that more people die in theirbeds than anywhere else, why should the most timid bedeterred by the faint possibility of peril from enjoying oneof the finest and most healthful winter amusements in theworld ? ..^^^S^^mr-b:. ^^^^^^0ff§^^i^^:y^: .>^ ^j IT A MIC-MAC CINDERELLA. HE dear old stories that deliirhted us in our nurseries X as mother or sister lured the lino-erino: dustmanto our eyes by telling them over and over, do not by anymeans belong to us alone. They are the common propertyof mankind. Even the most rude and ignorant peopleshave them in some form or other, and the study of thesemyths and the folk-lore associated with them is one ofthe most interesting branches of modern philology. Jackthe Giant-Killer, Puss in Boots, Aladdin and his Won-derful Lamp, and all the rest of them, have their parallelsin the farthest corners of the globe. They are to befound, too, among the dusky race whose mothers toldthem to their children long before pale-face eyes lookedcovetously upon American shores and pale-face powdersent terror into the hearts of brown-skinned braves. Takethis pretty legend of Tee-am and Oo-chig-e-asque as it was
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