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Kate gave him the soothing hand-stroke that nurses keep for feverish patients. "Of course," she said, "certainly, straight away, old boy." She groped about beneath his knees for the wastepaper basket that would be needed as vehicle. Then he heard her breathing a little hard as she stooped here, there and everywhere for the snowballs. He did not turn round, but talked during her labours.
"Give it to him!" cried Bert, whose face still stung where Danny had struck him with a snowball. "That's what I will," agreed Harry, whose ear was quite sore. For a time Danny said nothing, but tried to block off the rain of snowballs, throwing some of his own back. Then, as he was almost overwhelmed by the ones Harry and Bert threw, the bully cried: "Stop! Stop! I've had enough!
We who speak glibly of the need of love for our neighbours as being before that for ourselves, would we share a bed, a room, or give hospitality to strangers even in our kitchens, after they had awakened us in the middle of the night by slinging snowballs at our bedroom windows? One day that winter a father of eight children sent in from a neighbouring island for immediate help.
"We ought to get a lot of bullets made. And a fort. We must build a fort." Oliver took his army over at one end of the lot and set them to work making snowballs. The boys made more balls than the girls did. But then the girls were so anxious to make theirs smooth and round that they did not work very quickly.
Besides, they knew that, though Gardener was cross, he was trustworthy, and she would never let them go down to the lake without him. So they followed him, trying to be as good as they could though it was difficult work. One of them proposed pelting him with snowballs, as they pelted each other.
Her hand was admirably calculated, together with her use of many-syllabled words, to fill up a sheet, and then came the pride and delight of crossing. Poor Miss Matty got sadly puzzled with this, for the words gathered size like snowballs, and towards the end of her letter Miss Jenkyns used to become quite sesquipedalian.
I even think I had some notion of growing four-dollar orchids on the pear trees. The idea of putting in things that would really grow was entirely hers." "I like the idea of planting the old-fashioned, hardy things," said the Doctor. "They're the best, after all. Asters and foxgloves and deutzia and snowballs and all the rest of them." "And phlox," said Wade.
Certain large signs, at the different corners, averred that the Field was for sale and would be divided into suitable lots for building purposes, and also that trespassers were so little desired that they would be prosecuted by law. These signs were regularly defaced with stones and snowballs according to season, and were as regularly rëerected every spring by the hopeful owner or his agent.
Even at the age when girls seemed feckless creatures, whose aimings were inexplicable, both as concerned existence in general, and, more concretely, as touched gravel-shooters and snowballs, and whose reasons for bursting into tears were recondite, one had perceived the difference. One wondered about it from time to time.
Now and then, one of them, after gazing vacantly about the room for ten or fifteen minutes, would attack the sheet before him with fiercest energy; then the energy would taper off, and the paragraph halt, the writer peruse it dubiously, then angrily tear off the sheet and hurl it to the floor. All around them lay these snowballs of defeated journalism. Mr.
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