flask, started off in good style, Bill Berry in the lead.

"As 1 was telliu' ye, it was a dogonned cold day, and so we had to skate fast to keep ike blood up. There were little breath holes iv tbe j ice, and every now and then we would c me near from'into em. My skates got loose,and I stopped to fasten "em. J:.s; as I bad fluisbed buckling theetraj s I heard a noise. 1 looked j