United States or Gabon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Mrs Enderby laughed heartily, and then told him that her face was not unlike his once as round, and as red, and as shining in frosty weather. "Perhaps if you were to go out now into the frost, your face would look as it used to do." "I am afraid not. When my face looked like yours, it was when I was a little girl, and used to slide and make snowballs as you do. That was a long time ago.
The only catastrophe I can remember comparable to it was when a teacher rapped my knuckles with a ruler after I had been making snowballs bare handed. I reached the steps. And then The door was flung open from within, I could see the sparkle and leap of a fine big grate fire.
The second sphere was compressed and modeled with the same pains and placed beside the first. "That's for you, Mr. Mul-tal-la, and you're going to get it good! As for you, Mr. Deerfoot, you shall have a double dose." Crooking his left arm at the elbow, Victor laid three of the nicely molded snowballs in the hollow, which served as a quiver serves for arrows.
"We'll build a castle of snow; not a puny little affair, but a castle with high walls and parapets, and a deep ditch and outworks, such as cannot be captured without hard fighting. However, as we don't really wish to kill each other, instead of cutlasses and bayonets, and swords, and pistols, and all those sorts of deadly weapons, we will use good honest snowballs.
The boys talked it over, and it was decided to have the battle come off after lunch. The boys went home full of enthusiasm, and soon the news spread that a real soldiers' battle was to take place at the lot. "Oh, Bert, can't I go and look on?" asked Nan. "I want to go, too," put in Flossie. "Can't I be a soldier?" asked Freddie. "I can make snowballs, and throw 'em, too."
They made snow forts, and had snow-battles, they made big snow men and threw snowballs at them, and went on sleigh rides, or skated and ice-boated and played around generally, to their hearts' content. Occasionally the two older boys went on long tramps with Henry Burdock as he visited his traps.
If Miss Bibby had happened in that morning she would have come to the conclusion that the eccentricity of genius led it to divert itself at times with the game of paper snowballs.
"Oh, the fight is going to start!" cried Nan, in high excitement. "See them coming up the hill!" "Will they shoot?" asked Flossie, just a bit nervously. "Course they won't shoot," answered Freddie. "Can't shoot snowballs. Ain't got no powder in." The attacking party was still a good distance from the fort when those inside let fly a volley of snowballs.
Th' wild walrus is a mos' vicious animal, which feeds on snowballs through th' day, an' thin goes out iv nights afther artic explorers, which for-rms its principal diet. Theyse a gr-reat demand among walruses f'r artic explorers, Swedes preferred; an' on account iv th' scarcity iv this food it isn't more than wanst in twinty years that th' walrus gets a square meal.
Bill was the blackest negro, I b'lieve, I ever see. You couldn't see him in the dark with his mouth and eyes both shut. And that Newfoundland of his was just as black and his coat just as kinky as Bill's wool. The crew called 'em the two Snowballs." "What notion did the dog take, Uncle Amazon?" Louise asked as he halted. Sometimes he required a little urging to "get going." But not much.
Word Of The Day