Go down on a piece of the back porch that's left, and you'll find two pans of cold water in which you can wash your faces.

It's true the pans are frozen over, but you can break the ice, and it will remind you of home and your little boyhood." They sprang up and dressed as rapidly as they could, because when they came from the covers they found it icy cold in the room.

Then they ran down, as they had been directed, broke the ice in the pans and bathed their faces.
"Fine air," said Harry.
"Yes, but too much of it," said Dalton.
"Br-h-h-h-h, how it freezes me! Look at the icicles, George! I think some new ones came to town last night! And what a cold river! I don't believe there was ever a colder-looking river than the Rappahannock!" "And see the fogs and mists rising from it, too.

It looks exactly as it did the morning of the battle." "Let it look as it pleases," said Harry.

"I'm going to make a dash for the inside and a fire!" They found the colonels and the rest of the staff in the sitting-room, all except two, who were acting as cooks, but their work ceased in a moment or two, as breakfast was ready.