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| 25 | 44 | The ice is View more quotes about extremely">extremely important. |
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| 25 | 41 | The runners of our sleds were of wood. |
| 25 | 42 | At the beginning of the season, usually in the late fall, a paste, a muck, formed of earth, and grass and moss, for solidity, is shaped and placed on the wood, some five to six inches to thickness. |
| 25 | 43 | Ice will adhere to this coating, which is plastered thickly on the wood, as it will not to the wood alone. |
| 25 | 44 | The ice is extremely important. |
| 25 | 45 | At low temperatures snow becomes granular and has a texture somewhat like sand. |
| 25 | 46 | A coating of ice on the earthen plaster, fixed on the runners, reduces friction. |
| 25 | 47 | The coating, or plaster, will normally suffice, with patching, for a season. |