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Monkey-Doodle, I'll take her to Susie." Then Uncle Wiggily paid the toy-store keeper and hurried off with Susie's doll. Uncle Wiggily had not gone very far before, all at once from around the corner of a snowbank he heard a sad, little voice crying: "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" "My goodness!" said the bunny uncle. "Some one else is in trouble. I wonder who it can be this time?"
At once there was a scurry to the snowbank, and soon every one had a snow plate ready. Then Ranald and Don slid the little kettle along the pole off the fire, and with tin dippers began to pour the hot syrup upon the snow plates, where it immediately hardened into taffy. Then the pulling began.
William G. is not hurt, and together we trudge on after the runaways in the hope of overtaking them, which we do some two miles off. They are in a snowbank, and "nobody hurt". We are soon on the road again, all serene; though I believe the Doctor did observe that such a thing would not have occurred under a monarchial form of government.
It was about three miles from the street, up over the foot-hills, along the fiat cañon which debouched below the spring where lay the snowbank. There were different routes which one could take. . . . I knew the place very well from Curly's description, and found it easy to follow up the trickle of water which came down the cañon from the spring.
You see he was a kind-hearted Villain, and it was too bad that he was painted to look like one at all. So he dug a hole in a snowbank and they crawled into it, and in that way they were shielded from the wind. Night came on and Kernel Cob and Jackie Tar searched about, but it was so dark that they could not tell where they were going, but only went round and round in circles.
The Silurian limestone, the old red sandstone, the Hamilton flag, the Oneida conglomerate, where I have known them, are as homogeneous as a snowbank, or as the ice on a mountain lake; grain upon grain, all from the same source in each case, and sifted and sorted by the same agents, and the finished product as uniform in color and quality as the output of some great mill.
They all ran back to Snow Camp, catching up with Isadore before he got there with his grouch, and Tom and Bob fell upon the grouch and dumped it into another snowbank boy and all and managed in the scuffle to bring Busy Izzy into a better state of mind. "Just the same," he declared, "I'll get square with those girls for laughing at me you see if I don't!"
"There was a hole in a snowbank where whatever it was went in. I started to paw down, but William was for bunchin' it. "'I tell you, let it be and hump yourself out'n here, says he. 'It's after me because I blew up the mill; it's the devil, that's what it is. "'Is it? says I. 'Well, let's have a look at him.
Suddenly a strange thing happened: a rope shot through the moonlight and a big noose that was in the end of it settled over the arms and body of Santa Claus and drew tight. Before he could resist or even cry out he was jerked from the seat of the sleigh and tumbled head foremost into a snowbank, while the reindeer rushed onward with the load of toys and carried it quickly out of sight and sound.
I found bear tracks, both large and small, but no sight of Bruin himself. Discouraged, I lay down to rest and had a nap in the sun. Later, with the wind in my face, I peeped over a rocky upthrust near a large snowbank. My eyes bulged, my mouth opened. There was a bear just ahead. Surely it was mad crazy for no animal in its right mind would do what it was doing.
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