My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in CanadaOxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)
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My Strange Rescue, and Other Stories of Sport and Adventure in Canada
Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)
Canada -- Juvenile fiction; Canada -- Juvenile literature
The onlookers held their breath to watch him as he sped on. One, two,
three opponents were safely passed! by brilliant dodging, and now only
Sam Massie stood between him and the goal.
He knew it would be useless to try to dodge Sam. But there was a better
play. Before Sam could reach him he tipped the rubber over to Rob.
Instantly Sam turned upon Rob, and brought his stick down upon Rob’s
with a resounding whack. But the ball was not there. Already it was
rolling towards Charlie, who had continued straight on, and scooping it
up from the ground, with a straight, swift overhand throw he sent it
flying through the goal-posts just in time to allow the cry of "Goal!
goal!" to be triumphantly raised ere the six-o’clock whistle sounded the
hour for calling the game.
Charlie Kent was, of course, the hero of the day. Sam Massie,
brilliantly as he had played, was quite forgotten. But he did not forget
to come up and clap Charlie warmly on the back, saying,—
"Bravo, my boy! You’ll make a championship player some day. You must
come up to Toronto. We want your kind up there."
*SNOW-SHOEING.*
Three things have the "red children of the forest" given to the white
children of the cities which are so perfect in their way that it is
hardly possible there will ever be an invention filed in the
pigeon-holes of the patent-office that will surpass them. The canoe for
shallow water and what might be called cross-country navigation, the
toboggan, and the snow-shoe for deep snow, seem to be the very crown of
human ingenuity, even though they are only the devices of ignorant
Indians. One cannot help a feeling of hearty admiration when looking at
them, and noting how perfectly they fulfil the purpose for which they
were designed, and are at the same time as light, graceful, and artistic
in form and fashion as the most finished work of highly-civilized folk.
They all follow the line cf beauty so closely that it is no wonder the
ladies love to decorate their drawing-rooms and boudoirs with them, or
to have their pins and brooches modelled after them.
[Illustration: SNOW-SHOEING.]
To the Indian the canoe, snow-shoe, and toboggan were quite as important
implements as the spade, the plough, and the rake are to the farmer.
Without them he could not in winter-time have roamed the snow-buried
forests, whose recesses supplied his table, or voyaged in the
summer-time upon the broad rivers and swift-running streams, whose
bountiful waters furnished him their ready toll of fish. His white
brother has in adopting them put them to a different use. He had no
particular need for them in his work, but he was quick to see how they
would help him in his play, and erelong they had all three become
favourite means of sport and recreation.
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