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Virginia Cox threw her skates over her shoulder; Isobel, Dorrie Carr and herself were the last to leave the lake. The school grounds were deserted. "Oh, look at the snowman someone's started," cried Ginny, as they walked through the grounds. "Say, this is spliffy snow to pack! Let's finish up the work of art." In her enthusiasm over her suggestion her ennui was forgotten.
And it is very kind of you, for it is not your fault that I caught cold. I should have liked it if we could have done it, but I think to enjoy being a snowman, one should be snow all through." They had tea together, and then the invalid was tucked up for the night. The dray was put away in the cupboard, but he took the angel to bed with him. And so ended the first of the Three Christmas Trees.
Sunday morning me and Pewt and Beany went out erly to see our snowman. he was there and when people began to go by they began to laff, and most of the people said it was the funniest thing they ever see and who ever put it there was a pretty smart feller. so we said we did it and Pewt said he thought of it ferst and Beany said he did, and i said i did most of the werk.
Then he would run, with his heart in his mouth, to find him; everything else was indifferent to him. One Sunday morning, as he was sweeping the snow in the yard, the girls were in their garden; they were making a snowman. "Hey, Pelle!" they cried, and they clapped their mittens; "come over here! You can help us to build a snow-house.
Give us something to guess, Nodding Donkey!" growled the Plush Bear. "Let me think," said the new toy, slowly. "Ah, I have it! What am I thinking of that is like a snowball and has two eyes?" "A snowman!" guessed a wax doll. "No," said the Nodding Donkey, laughing. "A Polar Bear," suggested the Rolling Elephant. "No," said the Donkey again. Then the toys thought very hard.
Isobel began the story with the building of the snowman; Gyp took it up. Dramatically, with an eloquence reminiscent of that meeting of the Ravens when the ill-fated lot had fallen to Jerry, she explained how "for the honor of the school" Jerry had shouldered Ginny's punishment.
And on all the branches the most beautiful presents. I got a drum and a penwiper." "Was there an angel?" the child asked. "Oh, yes!" the boy answered. "It was on the tip-top branch, and it was given to me, and I brought it for you, if you would like it; for, you know, I am so very, very sorry I thought of a snowman and made you ill, and I do love you, and beg you to forgive me."
Then he would run, with his heart in his mouth, to find him; everything else was indifferent to him. One Sunday morning, as he was sweeping the snow in the yard, the girls were in their garden; they were making a snowman. "Hey, Pelle!" they cried, and they clapped their mittens; "come over here! You can help us to build a snow-house.
Brite and fair. this afternoon Whack Pozzy and Boog Chadwick, Dutchy Semans, Nigger Bell Pop Clark, Shinny Thing and Pile Wood all come down with saws and axes and helped us saw that wood, we worked all the afternoon and got it done and piled up before dark. then Misses Lewis asked us in and gave us some buly donuts and some sweatened water and we sung and told stories and before we went we told her we was sorry we bilt the snowman and she said she was sorry two. then when we went away we give 3 cheers for her.
The figure in the snow stumbled along the sidewalk, clinging to the iron railings. When he reached the steps of Aunt Jo's house he slipped down upon the second step and seemed unable to get up again. His body sagged against the iron railing post, and soon the snow began to heap on him and about him. "Oh!" gasped Margy. "He is a reg'lar snowman." "He's a black snowman," said Mun Bun.
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