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Updated: May 27, 2025
In winter the walks blur into the general whiteness, and the trees shrink to chilly skeletons, and the college is like five blocks set on a frozen bed-sheet no shelter for the warm and timid soul, yet no windy peak for the bold.
"How beautiful the cow " He hesitated once more. "O beautiful cow," sang out the roguish Wort behind the sheet. "Shut up!" shrieked the infuriated vocalist, rushing to the bed-sheet. "Don't interrupt me!" He resumed his recitation: "How beautiful the cow-slip Upon the verdant mead, How diligent the sower Who drops the tiny seed."
Lead me to him, Grim, old cock, I'd like another piece of him!" But Grim was humming to himself, playing piano on the bed-sheet with his fingers. "Is that man not an Arab?" asked the fellow in bed, taking alarm all over again. "Arab your aunt!" laughed Jeremy: "I eat Arabs! I'm the only original genuine woolly bad man from way back! I'm the plumber who pulled the plug out of Arabia!
It was quite warm, but, being all in a sweat, he put the bed-sheet around him to protect him from the draughts and went out to the stove and looked into the pot, and when he saw how good it looked he thought he might as well taste of it to see if it was done.
Bobbsey had given Bert just the right kind of lumber, and had a man at the saw-mill saw the sticks and boards to a proper size. He also gave his son some ropes and a pair of old iron runners from a discarded sleigh, so that all Charley had to provide was the bed-sheet already mentioned, for a sail. The two boys worked with a will, and by Thursday evening had the ice boat completed.
"I can get an old bed-sheet for a sail, if you will get your father to give you the lumber." "I'll try," answered Bert, and it was agreed that the ice-boat should be built during the following week, after school. Christmas was now but four weeks away, and the stores of Lakeport had their windows filled with all sort of nice things for presents.
My nautical friends carp at me for getting on shadows, but I beg them to consider before they judge me, whether they have ever steered at night down a river quite unknown to them an unhandy canoe, with a bed-sheet sail, by the light of the moon.
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