pumpkin
pie and then I'll make the snow-cream."

"Oh, goodie!" cried Jan and Teddy exactly together.

So, while Nicknack stayed outside in a sheltered corner by the house and
nibbled the dried leaves of some old flowers, Aunt Sallie got the pieces
of pie for the children, each slice on a nice little plate with a
napkin under it.

"And now for the snow-cream!" said Aunt Sallie.

She went out into the kitchen, and almost before Jan and Ted had
finished their pieces of pie back she came with two dishes with
something good in them.

"I made it just as you told me," she said to Jan. "I stirred the eggs
and sugar and milk up in some clean snow and flavored it. Tell me if you
like it."

The children tasted, and Ted exclaimed:

"I could eat three dishes!"

"But I guess one will be enough after the pie," said Aunt Sallie, and
Ted thought so, too, after he had finished the nice dessert. Then he and
his sister, after thanking Mrs. Newton, went out and got on the sled
again, hurrying Nicknack on, for it was growing late. They were soon
safe at their own home.

"Mother, are there any old rubbers in the house?" asked Ted that night,
after having told of the fun skating on the pond and riding over the
snow behind Nicknack.

"Old rubbers? What do you want of them?" asked Mrs. Martin.

"I want to make some overshoes for the goat."

"Overshoes for the goat! What will you try next, Teddy?" and his mother
laughed.

"We really are going to do it," added Jan. "Nicknack can't stand up on
the slippery ice without something on his hoofs."

"Why don't you get him a pair of skates?" asked Father Martin with a
laugh. "Though you'd have to get him two pairs, to have enough to go
around, as Nicknack has four feet."

"He couldn't stand up on skates," answered Ted. "His hoofs are like
skates now, they're so hard and shiny."

"And so you think overshoes would be the thing?" asked his father.
"Well, maybe they would do. I'll see if I can find some old rubbers or
rubber boots that you can cut up."

A pair of boots that had holes in them and could no longer be used by
Mr. Martin, were found in the attic. Some pieces of rubber were cut from
the legs and when the inside lining had been partly peeled off four thin
squares of rubber could be cut out.

"We'll tie these on Nicknack's hoofs and see if he can stand up on the
ice," said Teddy. "I wish it was to-morrow now, so we could do it."

Ted and Jan hurried home from school the next