with which he turns either forward or backward. During his practice
the beginner will undoubtedly bend his knees, but after he has reached
that point of excellence where his whole mind need not be centered on
his feet, he may learn gradually to straighten his legs until at last
he can do the spread eagle forward and backward without looking like a
straddle bug.

A ring can be made without lifting your skates from the ice. This is
called a spread-eagle circle, and it is cut by spreading the feet. The
skater must learn to keep his feet moving, first the right foot
forward and the left foot back, then the left foot forward and right
foot back, always with toes turned out spread-eagle fashion. When
properly done, this motion will cause the skater to glide around in a
circle, his feet moving in a most bewildering manner, while they weave
a pretty grape-vine pattern on the ice.

It would take a volume properly to tell all the possibilities of
skating, and the ice games, like shinny, and curling. But the boy who
can manage the movements already indicated will be sure to learn by
himself the more advanced art of this fine sport.

SNOW SHOES

are not so well known in the United States as in Canada and throughout
the St. Lawrence valley.

Snow shoes are shaped very much like tennis rackets, and are made in
much the same way and of much the same material. They are from thirty
to thirty-six inches in length, and about one-third that in width. The
broad point is to the front, and some eight inches back of this the