See, they don't even need to be wrapped up." "Oh, I'm so glad!" exclaimed Eva with a sigh of relief, and smiling through tears; then with a shudder and hugging Lulu close, "It would have been too horrible if they'd been cut off! I think skating is dangerous, and I'm not sorry the snow has come to spoil it; for us girls, I mean; the older folks and the boys can take care of themselves, I suppose." "Oh I like it!" said Lulu.

"I wanted papa to let me go back this afternoon and try it again, and I think he would if the snow hadn't come." "You surprise me!" exclaimed Evelyn.

"If I had come so near losing my fingers, I'd never care to skate any more." "I always did like boys' sports," remarked Lulu, laughing.

"Aunt Beulah used to call me a tom-boy, and even Max would sometimes say he believed I was half boy; I was always so glad of a chance to slip off to the woods with him where I could run and jump and climb without any body by to scold me and tell me I'd tear my clothes.

I don't have to do those things without leave now, for papa lets me; he say it's good for my health, and that that's of far more importance than my clothes.