Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1876 — Winter Sports at Quebec. [ARTICLE]

Winter Sports at Quebec.

A Quebec correspondent, describing the sports of the winter season, says if you contemplate visiting QueWc, especially you girls—the boys are usually warmly enough clad—you must dress for the occa»ipn, for the mercury is way down at zero and the moon is shining on a field of snow two feet in depth, and bringing out myriads of frosty diamonds, ana footsteps fill the crisp snow. So put on your warm fur jacket, take Off your stiff linen cuffs, take off your long dress-skirt and replace it with a short quilted one, pull on heavy overstockings and Arctic shoes, and, with a fur cap well pulled down over your ears and a cloud wrapped round and round your neck, you’ll look like a Canadian girl ready for a frolic in the snow, and ready to follow anywhere her escort leads. Snow-shoeing and sliding parties are the rage just at present. The toboggin, on which the coasting is done, is five or six feet long and eighteen or twenty Inches wide, made of a thin birch board, perhaps half an inch thick, strengthened by little crossbars and turned up at the front in a graceful curve. Of course, as they have no runners they are made, very smooth, md on this account an old worn toboggin is better than a new one. There is not a prettier or more picturesque sight than to see a rosy girl flitting swiftly but silent as a shadow down the long hill. You seat yourself on the toboggin with your feet under the curved front and your clothes carefrilly tucked under you, the pilot jumps upon the toboggin back of you, after giving it a start. With one foot dragging behind, like the rudder of a boat, he guides your craft. After the first start you might as well be flying, as far as motion goes. You lush and bound onward and downward in your mad career, a shower of djxanovv risuigiuyour wake.. Tlie ropes which you hold serveto steady S, and you clutch them* with a grip of peration as you skim Along, setting your teeth and bracing yourself against any stray “bump” you come to. A bump can be Setter imagined than described. ■>