What say you, Cousin Horace, to a match atween the two auld chaps o' us down there the noo ?" "Agreed," Mr.Dinsmore said with a laugh.

"There are skates that will answer our purpose I think, and we will set off at once if you like." At that moment Lulu came running in.

"The skates have come, Grandma Elsie," she said, "just as I have got back to the house.

Papa sent me in because it was too cold, he said, for me to be standing still out there.
He'll come for me when Mamma Vi is tired and wants to come in." "Does she seem to be enjoying it ?" asked the person addressed.
"Oh yes, ma'am, very much indeed! Aren't you going to try it too ?" "Yes, do, Elsie," said her father.

"And you too, Rose," to his wife.
"Let us all try the sport while we have an opportunity." The ladies were nothing loath, everybody seemed to catch the spirit of the hour, the skates were quickly distributed, and all hurried away to the lake, but Lulu and Grace who were to stay within doors, by their father's orders, till he came, or sent for them.
Lulu having taken off her hood and coat, now sat before the fire warming her feet.