The sled was the heaviest piece and the only one that offered a serious problem.
Run ye the noo, an' pack the sled whilst I harness the dogs.
He leaped suddenly beyond the sled and shook a tiny clenched fist toward the glittering crags.
Uncoiling a long babiche line, he tied one end to the tail rope of the anchored sled and, after making the other end fast about his waist, ventured cautiously out upon the snow bridge.
The Irishman and the boy took turns breaking trail for McDougall's leaders, and working at the gee-pole to ease the light sled over the rough places.
Quickly he swung thesled dogs and dashed back at a gallop.
And McDougall's big malamutes as though they understood the boy's words, humped to the pull and the heavily loaded sled slipped smoothly over the surface of the softening snow.
They also found a sled and a complete set of harness for a six-dog team--Carlson's six dogs that had found their way into the boiling pots of the White Indians.
Slasher settled down to a steady pull, and Big Mutt threw himself into the collar and fairly lifted the sled through the loose snow.
The boy had leaped from the sled and was mauling the rough coat playfully.
Breakfast over, the two packed the outfit and, without harnessing the dogs, pulled the sledto the foot of the barrier.
The bulk of the pack had been removed from Waseche's sled and added to the other two, and the sled and harness cached in the bush.
He could give Tom the rear sled of his old double runner, which was not broken in the accident.
The sled rushed toward her up the slope, the wearied dogs mending their pace in the frantic delight of home-coming.
The night was clear, and, even within the shadows of the trees about the camp, Dan could see distinctly where the sled stood outside the limit of the firelight.
He had turned for a look back as thesled dropped to the level of the valley.
Noiselessly, Dangerous Dan fumbled over the pack on the sled for some minutes.
Nell got down from the sled obediently and accompanied her husband into the saloon, where arrangements for their entertainment were speedily concluded.
In the wide expanse of the valley into which the creek flowed, a sled moved rapidly, as the dogs strained in their harness.
At the foot of the slope, some distance to the right of the freshly heaped-up snow, the sled was halted.
Irish, "here, howld 'is head till I get thesled clear.
Does the sled pass easily over bare ground or ashes?
Both Johnnie Jones and the sled plunged into the icy cold water.
After a while Jack would even pull Johnnie Jones's sled to kindergarten each morning, and then draw the empty sled home, after Johnnie Jones had gone into the house.
The water was not very deep, but as Johnnie Jones struck it head foremost, and as the sled was on top of him, he might have found some trouble in forcing his way out, had it not been for Jack.
Johnnie Jones was not quite five years old then, two years younger than Ned, and he could not guide his sled very well.
He sat on his sled and watched the older boys coast safely across, and run gaily back, waving their hands to him.
One afternoon Johnnie Jones started out with his sled and Jack ran along beside him.
When mysled was gone, I could run after him, but at last I could not run, but went a foot-pace.
The four dogs they had with them were still missing, having run off with the sled as soon as they smelt the house.
On the following day they were found entangled with one another, and the sled stuck fast against some rocks.
The snow is still a foot or two deep in the woods, and the ox-sled is got out to make a road to the sugar camp, and the campaign begins.
John thought about his dog and his sled and his yoke of steers, but he didn't see any way to bring them into conversation.
An' this Cody," he said, turning his handsome head to look down at the boy on his sled behind.
As Jack stopped the sled a swift volley of snowballs from a cross-street struck the figure of a tall, timid, stooping man in an old-fashioned cape, such as no Comstock boy had ever seen on anything masculine.
I'd rather see your sled a standin' front o' my door than the finest carriage any of 'em drives.
I'd rather see your sled a-standin' front o' my door than the finest carriage any on 'em drives.
Definite business at once broke up the session, and every man, looking out his parcels, mounted his sled and wended his way home.
Pride never forgets itself, never haz a play spell or frolik; it iz stiff from morning till night, from top tew bottom, like a sled stake.
Awl human happiness is conservatiff; 2 thirds ov the pleasure in sliding down hill consists in drawing the sled back.
But they would not take Ivra's sled as she wanted them to.
Two, a little boy and a young girl, came spinning down on the same sled and stopped so near that Ivra and Eric might have touched them by leaning forward.
But the little boy was as quick as she and threw himself on the sled while she never slackened her pace, but drew him straight and fast up the steep slope.
These are used as traces, by which the sled is dragged.
They laid down to sleep and in the morning they again started on the sled track.
As soon as the wolverene looked upon the sled loaded with meat the spell was broken.
The weight or load put upon a sled may be as much as 1,200 pounds.
The load must also be distributed to the best advantage along the sled so as not to have too great a weight at either the front or rear, although generally a heavier portion is placed behind to allow the sled to steer or follow.
Here he has a few weeks of rest from the season's labors, or spends the time constructing a sled for the winter journeys he may have in view.
The great length of the sled enables the person to guide it more readily.
This enables the sled to make a wider track at the bottom and encounter less friction of the runner sides against the snow crust.
Besides, a single board would certainly split, while two obviate this danger and render the sled less stiff.
I knew an instance where three men with empty sled and seven dogs traveled 94 miles in eighteen hours.
The use of the thongs in binding the slats to the runners allows freedom to the motion of the sled when passing over inequalities of surface, where a rigidity of the sled would soon cause it to break.
The load is taken from the sled or boat and the incidents of the chase recited to the ever ready listeners.
We would carry the pans and spiles together in big piles, where the oxen and sled could reach them.
Finally, we made out that someone was hurt and the oxen and sled were needed to bring him down.
With all possible speed the oxen and sled were got up there and after long waiting they returned to the house with Elihu aboard, groaning and writhing on a heap of straw.
We had the sled brought out--the runners needed a little repairing--and the next day made our first attempt.
We thought it would be a good opportunity to do a little coasting and inaugurate a sled we had had made with great difficulty the year before.
We amused ourselves very much as long as the snow lasted, about ten days--coasted often, and made excursions to the neighbouring villages with the sled and the donkey.
Only when the sled was finished the snow had disappeared!
The sled upset; we all rolled off into the deep soft snow, lost our hats, and emerged quite white from head to foot.
All the establishment "assisted" at the first trial, and the stable-boy accompanied us with the donkey who was to pull the sled up the hill.
The dogs were hauled upon the ice; the few loads that yet remained upon the sled were transferred to another; that sled was abandoned, and once more the expedition began its never-ending battle to the southward.
Finally, he sought out two strong poles or branches which were turned up a little at one end and like a sled runner.
He then had something that looked much like a sled on which to draw his thistle-like brush to his cave.
Since the sled accident that had crippled him for life, Billy was full of nervous terrors, and the night had been charged with mysterious noises.
The little cripple was nestling close up to him with the same panic-stricken air as when they rode that flyingsled together.
In his agitation he had forgotten to note the trail of the sled in which Tommy must have drawn off the things.
The sled swung to one side up the snowbank, and launched itself into the air.
Every minute a sled set out, sped down the straightaway, dipped, turned, disappeared.
A stone might serve her purpose, almost anything that would throw the sled out of its course.
The branch of a tree was thrown out in front of thesled to send us over the bank.
I have loved her ever since she was a child, and I drew her to school on my sled and cut her doll's head off to tease her.
Before the sounds of the creaking sled and the answering creak of the snow are heard, one sees the regular puffs of the team's breath jetting out and climbing the cold air.
And when he saw that he and the sled had parted company he was so delighted that he never minded his torn trousers.
How was he to get off the sled with his trousers nailed fast to it?
So Peter Mink had offered to help him, if Jimmy would give him the sledin return for his kindness.
Jemima, stiff, and a bit inclined to be sulky, had been lifted out of the sled and was now resting cozily on some furs in the corner.
In some way he had dropped the fur gloves he wore over his mittens, when he took them off to adjust a sled pack, and did not miss them for some time, until he ran into a fierce blizzard.
Naturally nervous, she had become, with the advent of her first family, so fierce that it was dangerous for any one to approach her except George, and for him she cheerfully left her puppies to be of service in sled pulling.
Pete's sled was piled high with freight and luggage, and astride of this was the Big Man, also in furs.
Baldy," he called; but Baldy threw himself from the sled with evident pain, but in a frenzy of haste.
Here his desultory training continued, but a lesson in sled pulling was almost invariably turned into a romp, so that he had only acquired the rudiments of an education when he came under "Scotty's" supervision.
Then they tied the Woman in with ropes, for there was constant fear that she might be hurled out when the sled swerved unavoidably.
Baldy's nature had always expressed itself best in action, and Ben was delighted with the ease with which he adjusted himself to serious sled work.
Thinking it might be a runner, he had leaned over the side of the sled to look; there was a crushing blow, and he recalled no more until he felt Baldy's hot breath, and an agonizing pain in his temple.
Don't you remember when practically all of the natives used to force puppies, who were far too young to be driven at all, to draw the entire family in a sled that was already overflowing with household goods?
The sled took me between the legs and I was histed back over the tongue and dropped in a heap behind before I knew what had happened to me.
Charlie Cowan and Fred Marr had started, but half-way down their sled got stuck and I run down to shove them off again.
His sled had a wooden tongue in it and it slanted back over the girls' heads.
