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Her talk was about the great jumps she had made how she snow-balled the chaps' in winter how she could slide twice the length of her stick beyond 'Briddles, the cow-boy. With this and similar conversation she entertained me. The grounds were delightfully wild and neglected.
Yet this aërial inn is only one hundred and eighty minutes from Los Angeles; and it is said that men have snow-balled one another at this tavern, picked oranges at the base of the mountain, and bathed in the bay of Santa Monica, thirty miles distant, all in a single afternoon.
You jingled in sleighs, you snow-balled, you lived in snow like a snow-bird, and your blood coursed and tingled, in full tide of good, merry, real life, through your veins none of the slow-creeping, black blood which clogs the brain and lies like a weight on the vital wheels!"
"`But, mamma, inquired Harry, `can we not get to the top of the mountain? I should like to have some snow to make snow-balls, and pelt Frank with them. "`It would be a very difficult task, Master Hal; and more than either you or I could get through with. I think Frank will escape being snow-balled this time.
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