Morning came, and long before sunrise a thin line of men, women, and heavily laden dog-sleds put out from the farther shore of the lake and headed for the black spruce swamp.
All night he superintended the breaking out of supplies in the storehouse and the loading of sleds for the trail, and at the first streak of dawn the vanguard of Indians who had followed him from Snare Lake swarmed up the bank from the river.
Men rushed to harness the dog-teams while others provisioned the sleds for the trail.
And the man said: "Gee up there," and all the oxen pulled as hard as they could, and the sleds started sliding along the ground on the snow and into the road.
And the sleds were beside one of the big logs, one sled at each end.
And the oxen walked slowly along the road, pulling the sleds with the logs on them, for a long way.
And the oxen pulled the sleds with the logs up beside the building and there was a strong carriage that ran on wheels on a track.
Illustration] Then they unhooked the tongues of the sleds from the yokes and led the oxen out of the way.
But inquiry at the office brought out the extraordinary fact that there were no sleds in the place and never had been.
Let's hire a couple ofsleds and go coasting," he suggested to Mollie.
Carts were generally used in summer andsleds in winter.
The poor settlers had to make frequent trips of from fifty to one hundred miles with hand-sleds or toboggans, through the wild woods and on the ice, to procure a precarious supply of food for their famishing families.
The bells were taken off before the sleds left the blockhouse, and the traces and the harness examined and tightened with the caution of men who were apprehensive of danger and who would take no chances.
Presently the wolves had approached close enough for the occupants of the sleds to see their shining eyes looking like little balls of green fire.
The sun had come out bright and warm; there was enough snow to make the sleds run easily, and we got on well until past three in the afternoon, when we were made aware of a very unusual change of temperature, for Maine in December.
Not only had we lost our load, traverse sleds and rack, but in due time we had a bill of ten dollars to pay the hotel keeper for his garden fence.
They had carried up their sledswith them--the sleds with the candle-greased runners.
The sleds hung on the brink for a moment and then went coasting down as nicely as you please, and quite swiftly.
They found that there was just about room enough on the toboggan slide for their sleds side by side.
There were sledsat Uncle Toby's house, and not far from it a little hill, and on this the children were soon coasting.
After several days of hard work the toboggan slide had been finished, and now, as Ted remarked, all they needed was some snow to fall, to cover the incline and make it slippery enough for the sleds to glide down.
As the boards, once they were wet from the melting ice, were too sticky for the candle-greased sleds to coast on, the fun had to be given up just before noon.
And the children had many fine coasts on it, for the sleds went faster than when greased with candles.
Tom and Ted seemed able to make their sleds jump farther than did the girls.
They put down their sleds and stretched themselves out on the coasters.
The sleds shot up the little incline and landed on the grass beyond with a bump.
They took turns at this, one at a time coasting down the wooden hill and marking where the sleds landed on the grass.
There were willing searchers, and soon the country around Crystal Lake was being searched by men and women in automobiles and sleds who inquired at each farmhouse for a little boy taken away by mistake.
I just happened to think I read a story once about some fellows who put candle grease on their sleds and rode down a wooden hill like this when there wasn't any snow.
Frequently had those settlers to go from fifty to one hundred miles with hand sleds or toboggans through wild woods or on the ice to procure a precarious supply for their famishing families.
Some of our men had to go down the river with hand-sleds or toboggans to get food for their famishing families.
There were only the marks of the sleds that had gone up two days before with the servants and baggage and returned--these same two pungs in which the party now rode.
Somebody was on watch, for the big entrance door opened before the sleds reached the steps, and yellow lamplight shone out across the porch.
In some places they could trot heavily, jerking the sleds along at rather a good pace; but for most of the way the road was uphill, and the horses plodded slowly.
Agnes, too, demanded this privilege, and tramped along beside Neale after the sleds on the uphill grades.
The drifts were packed so hard that the horses drew the sleds right over the drifts, without breaking through more than an inch or two with their big hoofs.
Divide the meat we have on the sleds among the people--the women and the children.
We climbed higher and met dashingsleds now and then, but saw no other ski-ers that evening.
There were sleds to let, by an old Frenchman, at a little booth across the way, and we looked over his assortment and picked a small bob with a steering attachment, because to guide that would be like driving a car.
We understood then; all those bobsledders took their sleds up by funicular and coasted down.
I'd taken the two sleds and all the dogs, as soon as I thought the ice was strong enough, and I'd gone two hundred miles to the store at Ophir to lay in our winter's outfit.
By arrangement, an early breakfast was eaten the next morning, and the goods were loaded upon the two Yukon sleds with which they were provided.
A mile advance withsleds and their packs took them to the head of Lake Bennet, where it may be said the navigation of the Yukon really begins.
Jeff Graham and Ike Hardman passed the rope attached to one of the sleds over their shoulders, the elder in advance, and led off.
The sleds were dragged over the strong ice, but later in the season, when it breaks up, travellers are obliged to follow the trail to the east of the cañon.
Oh, the men lashing the sleds and drawing tight the thongs.
You all remember the Whale People, who came to us in their broken boats, and who went away into the south with dogs and sleds when the frost arrived and snow covered the land.
The one was made of fir, spruce, and oaken boards, sawn like inch boards; the other was made all of whalebone, and there hung on the tops of the sleds three heads of beasts which they had killed.
Then we went farther and found two sleds made like ours in England.
All the children but Bessie ran alongside the sleds to keep warm, and they had lunches with them to eat when they were hungry.
He says he is used to Alaska winters, has been up into the Kotzebue Sound country, and is now going again with reindeer as soon as his sleds are finished.
Four big dog sleds were piled high with household things, the baby was tucked into a fur sleeping-bag with only her head out, at which she howled lustily, Miss J.
Upon the sleds were furs, guns, bags and fishing tackle.
Strong new sleds have been made by the natives, grub is being packed and dogs gotten into condition, besides a thousand other things which must be done before the expedition is ready to start.
February sixth: The man who made the two reindeer sleds for his Kotzebue trip has gone at last with two loads and three reindeer.
Among the stores on the sleds were canned goods, beans, sausages, flour and other things, and on these the captain subsisted.
The sleds used by the natives are called reindeersleds because made especially for use when driving deer.
Finally, with sleds and provisions, eight dogs and four men, she started.
Marshal, the clerk, and two others, taking seven dogs and sleds loaded with provisions.
The strong sleds with high-back handle bar and railed sides were firmly packed with freight, which was securely lashed down.
After we had left the shore some distance behind us we halted for the sleds to come up, Mollie seating herself upon the small one, I waiting for the other a little later.
In front of an igloo somewhat larger than the others, stood the dog-teams with their loaded sleds surrounded by a crowd of figures that differed in no single particular from the dozen or so who mushed along in advance.
The sleds were drawn up at the foot of this mound, the dogs unharnessed, and, unslinging his axe, Waseche Bill went to the thicket for firewood, leaving Connie to unpack the outfit.
Men in a frenzy of excitement threw their outfits onto sleds and swung the dogs onto the ice trail of the river, struggling and fighting for place.
Before passing from sight around a point of the spruce thicket, they halted the sleds for a last look at the solitary igloo.
The sleds slipped smoothly over the dry frost spicules, and the eyes of the three adventurers eagerly sought the edges of the high cliffs for signs of the White Indians.
Let's be mushin', I don't want them sleds too fah in th' lead.
Waseche hurried to his side; sure enough, neither dogs nor sleds were in sight and the man leaped forward to examine the thick carpet of rime.
And in all the vast solitude of the great white world the only living things were the fur-clad man and boy and the shaggy-coated dogs that drew the sleds steadily northward.
On the sleds remained about five hundred pounds of caribou venison, besides a small quantity of tea, coffee, bacon, and flour.
The sleds pulled hard, so that the dogs clawed for footing, and the snowshoes were placed conveniently upon the top of the packs, for soon the rackets would be necessary in the fast deepening snow.
The next morning there was consternation in Eagle, and a half-dozen dog sleds hit the trail.
The sleds were halted while the three took their bearings.
As a rule, the snowfall is light on the Western plains, and jumper-sleds are not in general use.
I take the sleds and follow the two sides of the triangle.
The wagon stopped abruptly as he reached back into the body for a package, and the sleds shot under the wagon almost up to the horse's hoofs, before the boys could find a holding place in the hard snow for their toes.
Why didn't they put engines and sleds and worth-while things there?
Straight for a huge snow bank, the two sleds headed, struck the curbing, and capsized with their owners underneath.
Last year, Bill and he had built a shaky bob for use on the park toboggan, only to have a collision with a park water hydrant, used for flooding the field, and the remains of the sleds had gone to their respective family woodpiles.
A flick at the ribs of the fat, easy-going horse, and the two sleds were flying homeward.
Their sleds whizzed past the runaways, one sled, on which Hattie Jenson rode, almost grazing a hoof.
They were on their sleds in the very path of the team.
Those who had been about to roll from their sleds now held on with firmer clasps.
Oh, I guess father will take one of his big lumber sleds and drive us all up," replied Bert.
He's as good as an Esquimo dog, and we saw some pictures of them pulling sleds bigger than ours.
The speedy horses pulled the sled over the white snow, the jingle of the strings of bells around them mingling with other musical chimes on sleds that they met, or passed.
Some of the girls on the sleds that were coming nearer to the rushing horses seemed about to roll off, rather than take chances of steering out of the way of the steeds.
About thirty men on horseback raced single file along the highway that bore the hard, frozen tracks of horses and sleds that had moved to and from the farms down there.
Rather, a solemn stillness seemed to fill each man as the sleds moved off down the hard, frozen roadway.
Three sleds went by the first day, and two the second.
A detachment of the North-West police went by, a score of them, with many sleds and dogs; and he cowered down on the bank above, and they were unaware of the menace of death that lurked in the form of a dying man beside the trail.
A few seconds later the bob came apart, some boys rolling off their sleds and others coasting down backwards or sideways.
The two boys, having pelted the snow man all they wished, got their sleds and soon joined Sue and the other girls on the hill.
In this way half a dozen boys or girls could lock themselves and their sleds together and go down the hill that way.
They would be expected to take on their own sleds their beds, clothing, and part of the supplies.
The loading the sleds was not as easy a matter as some might imagine.
When the sleds reached the spot where they were to enter the forest they found that the guide and his Indian comrade had cut down some dry trees and made up a splendid fire.
All the heavy sleds with their drivers went on ahead of the boys.
He must never make a track where it is not safe for the dogs with the heavy sleds to follow.
The boys took their places firmly standing on the tailboards of the sleds that projected in the rear.
When the men had finished packing and fastening up the loads they dragged them out in line on the homeward trail, leaving sufficient space between the sleds for the dogs when they should be harnessed to them.
The hill seems greased for the occasion," said Frank, as he noticed the ease and rapidity with which the sleds slid down in spite of the grip and strong holdback of the heavy, experienced Indian drivers.
The next operation was to have these trees all cut up in lengths that could be easily handed, and then dragged home by the dogs on their long sleds when there was abundance of snow on the ground.
Every time the dogs came in with their empty sleds they were permitted to remain a few minutes to scent the bears.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
