en the snow does come!" taunted
Ted. "And then we won't let you; will we, Tom?"

"Nope! And maybe it's going to snow pretty soon," added Tom, with
another squint at the sky. It was a very hopeful sort of look, but it
did not seem to bring down any of the swirling, white flakes.

The girls walked on toward the house. The boys were beginning to feel
rather disappointed. They had worked so hard to get the toboggan slide
finished, and now there was no snow so they could use it! Suddenly Tom
Taylor gave a cry, causing the girls to turn around and making Ted look
up from where he was playing with Skyrocket.

"What's the matter?" asked Lola.

"I've got an idea!" her brother answered.

"Tell us!" begged Ted.

"I know how we can have some toboggan rides without waiting for snow!"
exclaimed Tom.

"How? Make believe?" asked Janet. She was very fond of this game of
pretending.

"No, not make believe!" answered Tom. "Listen! Have you got any candles
in your house, Ted?"

"Candles? I guess we have some. I saw my mother rubbing one on a
flatiron the other day when she was ironing a dress for Jan. I don't
know why she rubbed the candle on the flatiron, but she did."

"She did it so the iron wouldn't stick to the starched dress," explained
Janet. "I should think anybody would know that! Wouldn't you, Lola?" she
asked in a rather "snippy" manner and with an upward turn of her little
nose.

"Of course!" agreed Lola. "Candles makes irons slippery."

"Well, if you've got some candles we can make our sled runners slippery
the same way, and we can toboggan even if there isn't any snow," went on
Tom. "I just happened to think I read a story once about some fellows
who put candle grease on their sleds and rode down a wooden hill like
this when there wasn't any snow. We can do like that! Get the candles,
Ted, and I'll go get my sled!"

"Oh, maybe we can have some fun!" cried Janet. "Come on, Lola, let's get
our sleds."

"You've got to grease your own runners," Ted warned the girls. "We
aren't going to do it for you."

"Oh, I guess we can do it," answered Lola. "Boys aren't so smart!"

Tom and Lola hastened back to their house to get their sleds, which they
had not brought over to the newly built toboggan slide, as there seemed
no use of doing this until snow came. Janet hastened after her sled, and
Ted went in the house to beg some candle ends of his mother.

"What are you going to do with them?" Mrs. Martin wanted to know.