Uncle
Ed, when told about them, informed us that that was the kind of snow shoe
used in Switzerland. Of course, we could not afford to destroy a pair of
baskets for each member of the club, and so we had to weave the shoes from
the willows which grew on the island.
[Illustration: Fig. 35. The Ski Stick.]
[Illustration: Fig. 36. The Swiss Snow Shoe.]
CHAPTER IV.
TENT MAKING.
We had a farewell meeting of the society the evening before Bill and I had
to return to boarding-school. At this meeting plans were made for the
Easter vacation. We also considered the matter of getting parental
permission for our summer outing. So far we had been afraid to breathe a
word of our plans outside of the society, since Fred had said something
about it in the presence of Father and had been peremptorily ordered to
banish all such hair-brained, Wild West notions from his head. We realized
from that incident that the consent of our parents would not be so very
easily obtained. But Bill came forward with a promising suggestion. He
would write to his Uncle Ed and see if he couldn't be persuaded to join
the expedition. At first we demurred. We didn't want a "governor" around
all the time. But Bill assured us that his uncle was "no ordinary man";
that he would not interfere with our plans, but would enter right into
them and give us many valuable pointers.
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