ight.

It was the first snow-storm of the season, and when the Bobbsey twins
awakened in the morning the ground was white and the flakes were still
falling.

"Oh, what good times we'll have!" cried Nan.

"I'm glad I have my rubber boots!" said Flossie. "I can go wading in the
deep drifts."

"Not until the storm stops some," said Mother Bobbsey.

It was Sunday, and the storm kept up all day so hard that the smaller
Bobbsey twins could not go to Sunday school, though Nan and Bert managed
to get there. And, as it was Sunday, the glass-man could not come to fix
the broken window. But the shutters were kept closed, and with a blanket
over the holes it was not so bad. Bert and Freddie liked to sleep in a
cool room, and never had any heat turned on in their sleeping apartment.
Their window was always open a little way, except on the very coldest
nights.

The next day a man came to put the fallen bricks back on the chimney,
and another man put new glass in the boys' window, so the damage from
the storm was soon mended. The storm was over now, though it was cold,
and the snow still covered the ground.

Then the Bobbsey twins had great sport. They got out their sleds and
went coasting on the hill not far from their house, and when they were
tired of this they played in the snow in their yard.

Flossie and Freddie rolled two big snow balls, so large that they were
almost as big as the twins themselves, and finally the balls had in
them so much snow that neither Freddie nor Flossie could push them
around the yard.

"I'll take them and make them into a snow man for you," offered Bert. He
put one snow ball on top of the other, Charley Mason helping him lift
it, and then they made a third, smaller ball for the man's head.

Pieces of coal made eyes and nose for the snow man, and Nan gave Bert a
bit of her red hair ribbon which, when fastened on the snow face, made
it look exactly as if the snow man was sticking out his tongue at you.

His arms were made of long rolls of snow, and one was crossed on his
chest, holding a broom. An old hat of Mr. Bobbsey's on top of the snow
man's head made him look quite natural.

"Now you can finish the rest of him," said Bert to Flossie and Freddie.
"Get some more pieces of coal, and put them down the front."

"What for?" Flossie asked.

"They will look like buttons on his overcoat," answered Bert.

"Oh, let's do it!" cried Freddie.

They did, and when they had finished putting a ro