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One of the snowballs fell right into Michal's lap, and as she shook it off her pelisse, there fell at her feet from the crumbling snow, a little crumpled piece of paper. She picked it up and saw that something was written on it. "At two o'clock this afternoon I shall be there!" So she has come back. She has dared to creep back into the town, despite the prohibition.
Wright told an interesting anecdote of young Brown, which runs as follows: John was the best-behaved boy in the school, and for this reason the teacher selected him to occupy a vacant place beside the girls. Some other boys were jealous of this, and after calling Brown a milk-sop, attacked him with snowballs. John proved himself as good a fighter then as he did afterwards at Black Jack.
He brought back a dozen snowballs and the first thing the girls knew the missiles were dropping over the top of the curtains into the sheltered spaces devoted to the berths. There was a great squealing then, for some of the victims were quite ready for bed, and the snow was cold and wet. Mrs.
"Let's surround 'em," was the suggestion offered. "We'll hammer the daylights out of 'em," came from one lad, who could only be brave when backed up by a crowd. "Yes, surround 'em, don't let 'em get away!" cried Bock. "Come on!" And he led the way on the run, making snowballs as he moved.
This year, it came later than usual not until just before Christmas. And when it did come, it was like a rain of silver. The children greeted it with joyful shouts and a wild throwing of snowballs; the women carried shovelfuls of snow into the rooms and spread it on the floor before sweeping; the men hung tinkling bells to their horses' harness.
The tales grew like snowballs, as they passed from mouth to mouth, but for the most part they were very unsubstantial in all points save one, and that possessed substance; not only lambs, but sheep, had disappeared, and in the case of a miner and his wife, who lived some distance off, and who had been away for a week to a wedding beyond the mountains, they returned to their solitary cottage to find that it had been entered in their absence, and completely stripped of everything movable, even to the bed, while the very cabbages in the garden had been torn up and carried away.
We walk on the snow, and pack a basketful on one of the mules, and pelt each other with snowballs. We have gone back another month in the calendar and are now at the place where "winter lingers in the lap of spring." Snowdrops, crocuses, and little purple grape-hyacinths are blooming at the edge of the drifts.
He quickly climbed the tree in order to throw snowballs at them. When Harry came back with the hatchet Bert once more called to Danny. "Are you coming down and fight fair? I give you my promise that only one of us will tackle you at a time. You can have your choice." "I'm not coming down!" cried Danny. "Chop away, Harry!" called Bert.
Next morning she kissed Nursey and begged pardon, and tried hard to be good till tea-time; then she ran to see what nice things they were going to have to eat, though she had often been told not to go into the dining- room. No one was there; and on the table stood a dish of delicious little cakes, all white like snowballs.
And if you have, I do not say ministers, or teachers, or official proclaimers, or Sunday-school teachers, or the like, but I say if you have a Church, that is honeycombed with doubt, and from which the strength and flood-tide of faith have in many cases ebbed away, why, it may go on uttering its formal proclamations of the Name till the Day of Judgment, and all that will come of it will be 'The man in whom the devils were, leaped upon them, and overcame them, and said' as he had a good right to say 'Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye? You cannot kindle a fire with snowballs.
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