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There was corn-popping, and bob-sledding with jingling bells behind a prancing team, with Imbert and Ida Mary sitting together as Imbert drove. Imbert's devotion to Ida was casually accepted by the prairie folk. They all knew him a likable, steady young fellow, who seemed to have a way with the girls.
You have got to be darn careful when you have the mumps, and not go out bob-sledding, or skating, or you will have your neck swell up biggern a milk pail. Pa says he had the mumps once when he was a boy and it broke him all up." "Well, never mind the mumps, how about your Pa spreeing it. Try one of those pickles in the jar there, won't you.
The half- muttered ejaculation spoke volumes of regret. His host smiled complacently. It was settled, so far as he was concerned. Mr. Flanders was to be depended upon. "Still snowing when you came in?" he asked, quite irrelevantly but with interest. "Yes, sir hard." "Good! We'll have bob-sledding on the terrace for the kiddies to- morrow.
Kyle used to put vinegar in his coffee and things like that, and if you'd ask him, 'What's that fellow's name that runs the clothing store in town? he'd come out of his trance and say 'Yes, and smile very amiable, to show that he thoroughly admitted you were right. "Well, things went as smooth and easy as bob-sledding until it came time for Loys to be moseying back to college again.
Half-a-dozen shovels were scraping and clinking about Crownlands when Nina and Harriet came downstairs, and Harriet saw the men laughing and talking as they worked. The telephone announced Francesca Jay, with an eager luncheon invitation for Nina and Ward; they were bob-sledding, and it was perfectly glorious! "I wish I liked people as much as they like me," Nina remarked over her breakfast.
I thought these were sweet dried apples, but they are sour as a boarding house keeper, and they make me tired. Didn't you ever have the mumps? Gosh, but don't it hurt though? You have got to be darn careful when you have the mumps, and not go out bob-sledding, or skating, or you will have your neck swell up biggern a milk pail.
Up it went and up till it came to the top of a great wave, and then it would race down on the other side as if they were bob-sledding and great sport it was, too, out in the middle of the ocean, and Sweetclover laughed and even old serious Kernel Cob smiled and forgot all about fighting.
Bobby grinned, showing his even, white teeth, and said he would. Then Stanley went on to join the other high-school boys who were bob-sledding, and Bobby ran home to tell his family the result of his chase. That night it snowed again.
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