st they pretended they did--and had lots of fun,
stopping at wooden islands to pick cocoanuts and oranges from
make-believe trees.

"Here comes mother with something real to eat!" cried Teddy, after a
bit, and up to the attic did come Mrs. Martin with some molasses
cookies. The children had lots of fun eating these and playing, and
before they knew it, night had come, bringing supper and bedtime.

Toward evening of the second day it stopped snowing, and the next day
was quite warm, so that when Ted and Jan went out to play a bit in the
snow before going to school, Ted found that the white flakes would make
fine snowballs.

"Oh, it packs dandy!" he cried. "We can make the snow man this
afternoon!" and he threw a snowball at Nicknack's stable, hitting the
side of it with a bang.

"Yes, this will make a good snow man," said Tom after school, when he
and Ted tried rolling the large balls. "We'll make a regular giant!"

And they started at it, first rolling a big ball which was to be the
body of the snow man.

CHAPTER VII

A STRANGE BEDFELLOW

Around and around in the back yard, near what had once been a snow
house, but which was only a big drift now, went Ted and Tom, rolling
balls to make the snow man. Finally Ted's ball was so large that he
could not push it any more.

"What'll I do?" he asked Tom. "Shall I leave it here and make the snow
man right in this place?"

"No. I'll help you push it," Tom said. "We want that for the bottom part
of the snow man, so it will have to be the biggest ball. Wait, I'll
help."

The two boys managed to roll the ball a little farther, and it kept
getting larger all the while, for as it rolled more snow clung to it and
was packed on.

"There, I guess it's big enough," panted Tom, after a while. "Now, we'll
pile my ball on top and then we'll put a head on our man."

"Where's his legs goin' to be?" asked Jan, who came out of the house
just then to look on for a while, bringing Trouble with her.

"Oh, we'll carve them out of the lower part of the big snowball,"
answered Ted. "I'll show you."

With a shovel he and Tom cut away some of the snow, making big, fat,
round, white legs for the man, who, as yet, had neither eyes, a nose nor
a mouth, to say nothing of ears.

"Now we've got to have some buttons for his coat and some eyes for his
head," said Tom, when the legs were made. On them the snow man stood up
very straight and stiff.

"What do you want for eyes?" ask