ell, shall we build the house over again?" asked Tom, when Ted had
taken the goat back to the stable and fastened him in so he could not
easily get loose.

"It'll be a lot of work," said Lola. "You'll have to make a whole new
one."

"Yes, Nicknack didn't leave much of it," agreed Tom. "Shall we make a
bigger one, Ted--big enough for Nicknack to get in without breaking the
walls?"

"Oh, I don't know," returned Ted slowly. "There isn't much snow left,
and some of the boards are busted. Let's make a snow man instead."

"All right!" agreed Tom. "We'll do that! We'll make a big one."

"I don't want to do that," said Jan. "Come on, Lola, let's go coasting."

"An' take me!" begged Trouble.

"Yes, take him," added Ted. "He'll throw snowballs at the snow men we
make if you don't."

So Baby William was led away by the two girls, and Tom and his chum
started to make a snow man. But they soon found that the snow was not
right for packing. It was too hard and not wet enough.

"It's too cold, I guess," observed Tom, when he had tried several times
to roll a big ball as the start in making a snow man.

"Then let's us go coasting, too," proposed Ted, and Tom was willing.

So the boys, leaving the ruins of the snow house, and not even starting
to make the snow man, went to coast with the girls, who were having a
good time on the hill with many of their friends.

"Oh, it's snowing again!" cried Ted when the time came to go home, as it
was getting dusk.

"We've had a lot of storms already this winter," added Lola.

"My grandpa wrote in a letter that a hermit, up near Cherry Farm, said
this was going to be a bad winter for storms," put in Jan. "Maybe we'll
all be snowed in."

"That'll be great!" cried Tom.

"It will not!" exclaimed his sister. "We might all freeze to death. I
don't like too much snow."

"I do!" declared Ted. "And there's a lot coming down now!"

There seemed to be, for the white flakes made a cloud as they blew here
and there on the north wind, and it was quite cold when the Curlytops
and their friends reached their homes.

All the next day it snowed, and Ted and Jan asked their father and
mother several times whether or not they were going to be snowed in.

"Oh, I guess not this time," answered Mr. Martin. "It takes a regular
blizzard to do that, and we don't often get blizzards here."

Though they felt that possibly being snowed in might not be altogether
nice, still Ted and Jan rather wanted it