“The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she stayed there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake – stumbling – leaping – slipping – springing upwards again! her shoes are gone – her stockings cut from her feet – while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank.” HBS.
jagedlo over 5 years ago
Ruthie listened and applied the information she heard!
DDrazen over 5 years ago
Same maneuver works with quicksand without the cracking sound.
rlaker22j over 5 years ago
Care to demonstrate
MichaelHelwig over 5 years ago
It does not make her lighter.
kab2rb over 5 years ago
Ruthie on the right way just wrong place.
Ushindi over 5 years ago
That must not be Eliza:
“The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she stayed there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake – stumbling – leaping – slipping – springing upwards again! her shoes are gone – her stockings cut from her feet – while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank.” HBS.