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Now at home, my brother has an ice-boat that's real sport." "Well, Ada, I suppose you think I'm old enough to be your grandmother," said Miss Anderson, laughing. "I wonder what you'll say when I tell you that I still enjoy a good coast? If you girls who think you are too old to play in the snow would only get outdoors more you wouldn't complain of so many headaches."
Facing the storm with some difficulty, they got out as far as the ice-boat of La Salle, which they found completely covered to the depth of two or three feet. "We should have been smothered if we had taken refuge there last night," said Ben, as he proceeded to search for the buried decoys.
And then, all of a sudden, the Bird shot ahead more swiftly than before. The wind was blowing more strongly, and when Freddie moved the rudder he steered the ice-boat so that the wind sent it straight ahead instead of a little to one side. "Oh! oh!" cried Flossie, "this is too fast! How can we stop the ice-boat, Freddie?" "I I don't know," answered the little boy.
Suddenly the wind came in a fierce gust. The ice-boat seemed about to turn completely over. The two girls screamed, even Nan being frightened now. "Oh, what is it? What is it?" cried Dorothy. Then came a sharp crack. There was a sound as though a hundred pop- guns were being fired, and the boat slackened speed. "Look!" cried Harry pointing ahead "Our sail has burst, Bert"
They talked over the various things they had to do in order to make their stay at Snow Lodge pleasant, and then went out to call on some friends. That afternoon Bert and Nan extended the invitation to Snow Lodge to a number of their boy and girl friends, explaining how they were going to make the trip on skates or on the ice-boat. But one after another declined.
And now, instead of their rushing toward the crack, it seemed to be flying at them, widening like the jaws of a terrible dragon. But the ice-boat was as fearless and as gaily jaunty as Siegfried. Straight at the black maw with bits of floating ice like the crunching white teeth of a monster, the boat held its way.
"He's just the nicest man!" cried Flossie. "He took us in when Freddie upset the ice-boat, and " "I didn't upset the ice-boat it upset itself!" Freddie cried. "Easy now, children! Don't dispute," said Mrs. Bobbsey gently. "Uncle Jack is quite a character around Lakeport," went on Mr. Bobbsey. "I don't know all his story, but he has lived in the woods for a number of years.
The most popular of the story-tellers was B.J., whose favorite and most successful yarn was the account of the great ice-boat adventure, when the hockey team was wrecked upon Buzzard's Rock, and spent the night in the snow-drifts, with the blizzard howling outside.
"Excuse me, but I didn't mean to do it," answered Bert, and lost no time in getting out of the gentleman's way. The gentleman was very angry and left the ice, grumbling loudly to himself. Down near the lower end of Mr. Bobbsey's lumber yard some young men were building an ice-boat. Bert and Charley Mason watched this work with interest. "Let us make an ice-boat," said Charley.
"And now tell us what happened there I mean besides about Uncle Jack," said Nan. "Did you see any of my friends?" "And did you see Bessie Benton?" Flossie asked, naming a little girl with whom she often played. "Yes, I saw Bessie," said Mr. Bobbsey, "and she sent you her love." "Did you see Tommy Todd?" Freddie queried. "Yes; I stayed at his house." "How is the ice-boat?" asked Bert.
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