During this time also they were busily employed in preparing staves of birch wood, about seven or eight feet long, to serve as tent poles in the summer, and in the winter to be converted into snowshoe frames.
Winter travellers, however, were sometimes troubled with a disorder known as the snowshoe evil.
His heart filled with gladness that Jessie should choose him as guide and companion to snowshoe with her out into the white forests where her traps were set.
Whaley had left her a small hatchet, and with this she began to shape a snowshoe from a piece of the puncheon floor.
Sometimes I think I'm fed up for life on the hissing of snowshoe runners.
Reaching down in, he loosened the barrel-stave snowshoe from Russ's foot, and soon pulled the little boy up straight.
So, when the snowshoe was again tied on his foot, he and Laddie shuffled about where the snow was not too deep.
As he took one step he would put the other snowshoe down on the one he had moved last, and then he could not raise the underneath foot.
I fell, or rather dived, into the snow, and in so doing broke a snowshoe and lost my hat.
In order to give an idea of one of my briefer winter walks, I close this chapter with an account of a round-trip snowshoe journey from Estes Park to Grand Lake, the most thrilling and adventurous that has ever entertained me on the trail.
Will, trembling from his exertions and limping from the broken snowshoe approached cautiously, still viewing that huge, hairy form with wonder and some apprehension.
The infuriated beast charged directly over him, trampling on the point of one snowshoe and breaking it, but missing the foot.
I found the trail of the wolves, and I found the snowshoe tracks of a man.
Using a snowshoe as a shovel he then began digging out the soft interior of the drift, burrowing a two foot tunnel until he was well back from the door, where he made himself a chamber large enough for his sleeping-bag.
For a dozen paces he followed in the trail, allowing six inches with each step he took as the snowshoe handicap.
If it had been possible for Celie to ask him just what he expected to gain by following the strange snowshoe trail he would have had difficulty in answering.
Then, looking down, he saw that for the present the man who had made the strange snowshoe trail was as good as dead.
The same unseen force that had compelled him to wait and watch for his foes a short time before seemed urging him now to follow the strange snowshoe trail.
His pulse quickened as the thought grew in him that the maker of the strange snowshoe trail might be a friend after all.
In a flash she had darted to the snowshoe tracks and was examining them with eager intensity.
They had progressed another half mile when suddenly they came upon a snowshoe trail in the snow.
The man who had made them had taken a longer snowshoe stride than his own by at least nine inches.
Sandy paused as he turned somewhat eagerly toward his friend, "a mile from here, just across a narrow ravine, Toma came across snowshoe tracks.
The thong of the snowshoe on his right foot had become caught in a snag of brush and had tripped him.
It is the only time when I found the Snowshoe Hares gathered for a social purpose, and is the only approach to a game that I ever heard of among them.
Snowshoe Rabbits fascinated by the lantern Sketched in the Bitterroot Mts.
The Snowshoe Hare is a cross between a Rabbit and a Snowdrift Captives; photo by E.
Illustration] Here is the hind foot of a Snowshoein winter, contrasted with the hind foot of a Jackrabbit that was nearly three times its weight.
Snowshoe Rabbits dancing in the light of the lantern Sketch by E.
Again the little prisoner rolled his signal call, and then a third Snowshoe Rabbit appeared.
He knew the chipmunks and the gray squirrels and the snowshoe rabbits.
Once they thought they saw a snowshoe rabbit, a strange shadow on the snow, but he was too far away for Snowbird to risk a pistol shot.
I think we could have made it, if the wolves had kept off and the snowshoe hadn't broken.
But she wasn't hurt, and the snowshoe itself, in spite of a small crack in the wood, was still serviceable.
Once or twice they caught glimpses of wild life: once a grouse that had buried in the snow flushed from their path and blew the snow-dust from its wings; and once or twice they saw snowshoe rabbits bounding away on flat feet over the drifts.
The snowshoe thong, jagged with ice, chafed him cruelly.
Again he examined the snowshoe trail ever stretching in front, and noticed how crisped and hard was its edge.
And now, like a Tithonus who could not die, he crawled along the snowshoe trail on is hands and knees.
The snowshoe sank deep, the snow itself clung to the webs and frame until it was almost impossible to lift.
The snowshoe trail, however, was so faint as to be almost invisible.
The marmots had descended into their burros, the snowshoe rabbit hopped, a lonely figure in the desolation, through the drifts.
If indeed Bill had reached the Twenty-three Mile cabin, he would be mushing home by now; she would meet him somewhere on hissnowshoe trail.
He had left the snowshoe trail that evidently passed in front of the shelter and had crossed the snow crust to the mouth of the lean-to.
Bill felt wholly able to follow the broadsnowshoe track the half-mile farther into town.
He secured certain thongs of rawhide--left over from the moose skin that he had used forsnowshoe webs--and put them in his coat pocket.
Just to count his steps, stoop, grope and find the snowshoe trail, then journey on again.
But now the snowshoe frames were done, wrought from tough spruce, and the moose hide cut into thongs and stretched across to make the webs.
All rights reserved To Agnes, of the South--this story of the North The Snowshoe Trail I It was not the first time that people of the forest had paused on the hill at twilight to look down on Bradleyburg.
The gun, in fact, lay within a few feet of him, while as he turned there was the lost snowshoe descending in a dignified manner towards him.
They had hunted high and low for the trace of two prospectors, for the snowshoe marks left by Joe and Hank, and had fallen upon those marks prior to their joining hands with Beaver Jack.
The types of snowshoes suggested in the chapter on snowshoe and toboggan travel are the types also best suited to dog and komatik work.
The clothing suggested in the chapter on snowshoe and toboggan travel is equally well suited to travel with dogs and komatik.
Wrapping the snowshoe in this manner will at least double its life.
This sling will hold well, will not chafe the foot, and with it the snowshoe may be kicked free from the foot or adjusted to the foot in an instant.
The former will not stretch when wet, while the latter will stretch and bag so badly as to render the snowshoe practically useless.
The best and most practical, as well as the simplest sling or binding for the snowshoe is made as follows: Cut from an Indian tanned buckskin a thong about half an inch wide and thirty inches in length.
It was a few days after the snowshoe film had been made that Mr. Pertell decided on getting some scenes farther back in the woods than he had yet gone for views.
But this was the broad snowshoe trail, which she knew was made by a creature even more crafty than herself.
Then something happened which inclined our poor William to direct his right snowshoe towards his left one.
There were also foot races andsnowshoe races in which the mounted police joined, along with the Eskimos and the boys.
The white outlaw parried Mistak’s swift thrust and sent him reeling backward, almost falling when one snowshoe caught on its mate.
Long since they had given up following the snowshoe tracks.
Half a mile from the white Eskimo’s rendezvous the snowshoe tracks led on steadily, then there were signs of a delay in the trampled snow.
Beside the undeviating snowshoeprints leading toward Mistak’s igloos, there was a bewildering maze of tracks leading in all directions.
The temperature had risen a little when all four set out on the return trail, now almost blotted out save where the wind had struck it squarely and had blown the loose snow away around the packed snowshoe tracks.
Here we’ve been mushing north for a month and we haven’t seen anything more dangerous than caribou, ptarmigans and snowshoe rabbits.
Yet, when two miles on the trail, the snowshoe tracks they were following swung toward the sea, Dick knew no such good fortune was destined to be theirs.
It was a wonder that he had noticed neither the deadfall nor our hard-packed, snowshoe trail.
Vernacular names are misleading because the names jack rabbit and snowshoe rabbit are applied to hares; also, Belgian hare is a name applied to a rabbit (genus Oryctolagus) that is commonly bred in captivity.
He had walked all day and all night, following her snowshoe tracks.
On pushed Oowikapun until nearly every snowshoe track of these hunters had disappeared, and but few were seen, and the sense of being alone again in the forest, or nearly so, returned to him with depressing results.
Some falling snow covered up my snowshoe tracks and the little trail made by my sled, and so no one could tell in which direction I had gone.
While brooding over his misfortune he suddenly remembered the snowshoe tracks of the stranger, and at once resolved to try and find his lodge, and secure help.
As he hastened on he became more thoroughly convinced of this, as he observed how like a great sleuth-hound it glided along in thesnowshoe tracks before them.
We left Oowikapun hurrying along on willing feet at the place in the forest where he had first observed the snowshoe tracks of the hunter of the village he was approaching.
While moving along under his heavy load he was surprised to come across the snowshoe tracks of another hunter.
During winter these polar mountain-stretches have a strange charm, and many a time my snowshoe tracks have left dotted trails upon their snowy distances.
Toward the close of my last winter as government "Snow Observer" I made a snowshoe trip along the upper slopes of the Continental Divide and scaled a number of peaks in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado.
Conies are numerous in the slide rock of the heights, andsnowshoe rabbits people the forests.
The boys exposed a plot against old Uncle Barney, and in the end caused the old hunter's enemies to leave Snowshoe Island in disgust.
And he is very thankful for all you Rovers did for him that Winter," answered the girl, referring to the happenings which have been related in detail in "The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island.
From Colby Hall the scene was shifted to "Snowshoe Island," where the lads went for a mid-Winter outing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snowshoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
