o down, getting bigger and bigger as it progressed.

"Hello, I've got an idea!" cried Tom, as he watched the rolling of the
big snowballs.

"Something brand new, Tom?" queried Larry.

"I think so. Let us give Peleg Snuggers a roll. It will do him
good--shake up his liver, and all that."

"You mean to roll him down this hill?" asked a student named Morley.

"That's it."

"Might hurt him."

"Not if we put a snow overcoat on him first," answered Tom.

"What do you mean?" asked another student.

"Let us roll a big ball the shape of an egg and hollow out the middle.
Then by some trick we can get Peleg to crawl inside, and----"

"That's the thing!" cried George Garrison. "Come on. Where is Peleg?"

"Down at the stables."

With eager hands the cadets set to work and rolled up a big ball in the
shape of an egg and then dug out the middle with a shovel. In the
meantime a message was sent to the general utility man that he was
wanted at the top of the hill at once.

"Must want me to mend a sled," he mused, and hurried off, taking with
him some tools, nails and cord. He often did favors for the cadets, who
gave him "tips" in return.

When Peleg Snuggers arrived at the top of the hill the big snowball was
ready for use.

"Here is Peleg!" cried Tom. "He can do the trick for us. Can't you,
Peleg?"

"What is that, Tom?" asked the general utility man, innocently.

"We want to fasten this cord in the hole through that big snowball, but
we don't want to get it crossed," went on Tom, anxiously. "Will you take
the cord, crawl in there and then pass the end out and over the end of
this shovel, and then loop it over to the other end?"

"Why--er--I don't understand," stammered Peleg Snuggers.

"I'll explain after you are inside the ball," said Tom. "Here's the
cord," and he led the general utility man to the hole and helped him to
get down.

Not suspecting a trick, Snuggers crawled into the big snowball. Before
he could do anything with the cord given to him the cadets rushed
forward and gave the snowball a push toward the edge of the hill.

"Hi! stop that!" roared the general utility man, trying to back out.

"Hold tight--the snowball is getting away from us!" yelled Tom.
"Somebody keep it from going down the hill!"

"We can't hold it back!" screamed Larry, grinning at the same time.

"It's bound to go--too bad!" wailed another.

"Say, let me git out!" yelled Peleg Snuggers, but at that moment the
snowball beg