SAIL-SKATING IN DENMARK.

HArRoLD JoHNsoN was highly delighted one day when his”
father, who was captain of a steamer trading between Hull
and Denmark, suggested that, since Harold had got his
Christmas holidays, he should go with him on his next
voyage. As it was winter, Harold’s mother saw that plenty
of. warm clothing was packed up for him, and when Captain.
Johnson said that his son might as well put in his skates,
Harold asked at once, “ Why, father, shall we stop long at
any port, and shall I get a chance of any skating?” “ Plenty, ,
my boy, as we shall be a week at Copenhagen, unloading and
loading, and some of the friends I have there will be glad
to show you some sport.” Things turned out just as Captain
Johnson had said, and Harold had such skating as he never
had in England.~ The way in which his Danish friends
skated with sails up puzzled and amused him very much,
and before he could follow their example and manage
to sail himself many ‘were the tumbles that he had. It
was a pity, he felt, that his father’s vessel had to leave for
home so soon; but next winter he hoped to come again,

and with more practice learn to manage his sails better.

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