Gents Mag 1900 part 2 p.364
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Gentleman's Magazine 1900 part 2 p.364
then the bulk seemed again to increase, but not till I was within thirty feet did I recognise the outline of a man kneeling and rebuckling his skate-strap. I hailed him with relief - a companion under such circumstances could not be wearisome - and while the ice roared and snapped in peals like thunder (a common night occurrence on large frozen sheets) we made for the second crack near Rawlinson's Nab. To cross this it was necessary to land and walk or slide a couple of yards. My companion shot round with ease, but my skates struck a chunk of ice or stone and came off, throwing me on my head and partially stunning me. Till this I had not noticed anyone standing by the wood-edge. Two farm servants picked me up, but I was no worse save for a bruise or two. The ice was bad here; at many places it was broken through, so that for a few score yards we had to follow our leader cautiously. Then we spread out again - the gang was now eight in number - and made for the row of lights at Bowness. It became a mad race in, for we were sure of the surface. In Bowness Bay we found about a hundred persons skating about in the light of a tall electric standard in front of the Old English Hotel. It was grand travelling round Belle Isle where only a few were plying the steel: a concertina squeaked as one party swept by; an ice-yacht whizzed along, its sole occupant clinging precariously to the frail structure; a distant hum of voices crept across the island from the bay we had just left. A few miinutes more of easy skating, and, as we landed at the Ferry Hotel, the kennelled hounds gave out a merry chorus, which echoes along the fir-covered bluffs, in happy augury of hunting days yet to come. WILLIAM T. PALMER. |
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