by.

"You might have been hurt by that if you had not stopped your sled in
time," said the big girl to Ted.

"That's what I thought," he answered. "That's why I steered into the
snow bank."

"Those big boys were mean to shove you down the second hill," declared
Janet.

"Well, maybe they didn't mean it," said the big girl.

"No, we didn't," put in one of the larger boys, coming up just then.
"We're sorry if we hurt you, Curlytop," he added to Ted.

"You didn't hurt me, but you scared me," was the small boy's answer.

"You certainly know how to steer," said the bigger boy. "I watched you
as we passed you on the hill. I knew if we got to the bottom first we
could keep you from getting hurt by the train. Now you and your sisters
sit on my big sled, and we'll pull you to the top of the hill to pay for
the trouble we made."

"I'm not his sister," said the big girl.

"I am!" exclaimed Jan quickly.

"I might have known that. You two have hair just alike, as curly as a
carpenter's shaving!" laughed the big boy. "Well, hop on the sled, and
you, too," he added, nodding at the big girl. "I guess we can pull you
all up."

"Course we can!" cried another big boy, and when Ted, Jan and the larger
girl, whose name was Helen Dolan, got on the largest of the sleds that
had made up the bob, they were pulled up the two hills by a crowd of
laughing boys, Teddy's sled trailing on behind.

So the little incident did not really amount to much, though at one time
both Ted and Jan were frightened. They coasted some more, being careful
to keep out of the way of the bigger boys and girls and then, as it was
getting dark, Jan said again they had better go home.

"One more coast!" cried Ted, just as he had said before. "It may rain in
the night and melt all the snow."

"It's awful cold," shivered Janet, buttoning up her coat. "If it tries
to rain it will freeze into snow. And it's snowing yet, Ted."

"Yes. And almost as hard as it was this morning. Say, maybe we'll be
snowed in, Jan! Wouldn't it be fun?"

"Maybe. I never was snowed in; were you?"

"No. But I'd like to be."

The time was to come, though, when Ted and Janet were to find that to be
snowed in was not quite so much fun as they expected.

They reached home with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes, to find supper
ready for them.

"Did you have a good time?" asked their mother.

"Fine!" answered Janet.

"And I got run away with," added Ted, who always told everything