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"Guess we're goin' to lose our sleighin', ain't we?" "It seems to be going pretty fast," replied Miss Clara, laughing. "Yes'm," he remarked, "we sh'll be scrapin' bare ground putty soon now if this weather holds on. How's the old hoss now you got him agin?" he asked. "Seem to 've wintered putty well? Putty chipper, is he?" "Better than ever," she affirmed. "He seems to grow younger every year."
Old Mother Fraser's jist gone away from there; she's been tellin' her something new about Mr. Egerton, I guess!" She ran out to the hall and flung open the door. "Hello, 'Liza! Come along in; we're all here, Sarah'n all. It was too snowy for her to go to school. My, but you needn't bring all the snow in; leave a little outdoors for sleighin'."
"Aunt Ellen says every blessed one of your children, an' your grand-children too, begged and begged you to come to the city for Christmas an' an' you wouldn't go 'cause you're old-fashioned and like a country Christmas so much better an' an' because you'd promised to teach me to skate on the Deacon's pond an' take me sleighin'."
H-a-rum? An' I'll say, 'Ain't that ole hoss wore out yet? or, 'When you comin' 'round to run off with another hoss? I'll say." At this point David got out of his chair, yawned, and walked over to the window. "Did you ever in all your born days," he said, "see such dum'd weather? Jest look out there no sleighin', no wheelin', an' a barn full wantin' exercise.
"Well, these Andersons were so poor they didn't have any skates, but some of the boys had let them take a sled, and two of these little Anderson kids were slidin' around on the ice and havin' all the fun they could, even if they didn't have skates. I suppose their toes was as cold and their noses as blue, and that's half of skatin' or sleighin'."
It's cash money, you see, when the haulin' is goin' on." "I believe the Laning girls are stopping with you," put in Sam. "Yes, Nellie and Grace came up some time ago. You see, our girl, Addie, gits tired being on the farm with only her mother, so we invited her cousins to come up for a spell. They've had some pretty good times together, so far, skatin' and sleighin', and the like.
Well that's apt to be the case with them as choose their wives in sleighin' parties, quiltin' frolics, and so on; instead of the dairies, looms, and cheese-houses. "Now the Bluenoses are all a-stirrin' in winter. The young folks drive out the gals, and talk love and all sorts of things as sweet as doughnuts.
Well that's apt to be the case with them as choose their wives in sleighin parties, quiltin frolicks, and so on; instead of the dairies, looms, and cheese house. Now the Blue Noses are all a stirrin in winter. The young folks drive out the galls, and talk love and all sorts of things as sweet as dough-nuts.
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