The Harvester World: Volume 1, number 7, April 1910

              The Harvester World
A Jolly Snowshoe Tramp
By H. A. BoRDEAU, General Agent, Montreal, P. Q
"The members of the I H C Maple Leaf club had a very pleasant snowshoe tramp on the evening of February 26th last, the run being from the base of Mount-Royal to Lumkins' famous resort at Cote des Neiges.
"The weather was perfect, a clear starry sky, crisp air, snow of the whitest purity, and the outing was a decided success." J-The above is a news item which was gleaned from the Montreal "Star" of Febru¬ ary 28th. It refers to the lately organized snowshoe club formed by the staff em¬ ployes of the International Harvester Com¬ pany of America at Montreal.
Snowshoeing is Canada's  national   win-
endurance  as well as for the careful train¬ ing to which they have been subjected.
The club's costume is a most decorative and pretty affair, as well as a very service¬ able one. It consists of white, heavy ribbed wool sweaters decorated on the breast with a large size green colored maple leaf bearing on its center the club monogram I H C in bold red letters. The girls for the most part wear white wool toques while the boys have red ones. All have on heavy red ribbed stockings and moccasins. The girls have serviceable short skirts, and all are girdled with red tasselled sashes. Taken all in all, they have a very jaunty air; the boys carry themselves with a freedom of movement, and the girls have a dainty sturdiness which is most captivating.    In this, their almost
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ter sport par excellence, and is enjoyed to the fullest by everybody, young as well as old folks in Montreal. The surrounding country with its gay French villages, the pretty hills and dales through which one must perambulate, make it a most fasci¬ nating as well as a most healthful pastime.
The well-known Mount-Royal from the base of which most all outing parties start is Montreal's great show mountain, and it lends a very noble and imposing aspect to the city which it dominates; snow-capped, majestic, in its solitary grandeur, it is the tramping ground of all snowshoers in Montreal, the run from its base to the sum¬ mit being from five to six hundred feet, and thence to the old fashioned inn of Lum¬ kins in the valley of Cote des Neiges.
On the last occasion of the I H C Maple Leaf Club's tramp, the members, twenty- seven strong girls and boys, had a most enjoyable time. From a sporting point of view, the fact that when they reached Lumkins there were no stragglers behind, talks well for their tramping capacity and
national costume, these girls make one think of the famous poem of Drummond, "De Nice Leetle Canadienne."
Generous
The Doctor—"Mrs. Murphy, you must be at your husband's side constantly, as you will need to hand him something every little while."
.. Mrs.  Murphy—"Niver,   doctor!    Fur be it from me to hit a man when he's down."