unging into each
other in anything but an orderly fashion.

Down in the gully the girls and the cadets were having an exciting time
of it. Some of the party had plunged almost head first into the snow.

"Come on, boys, help the girls all you can!" came from Jack, as he
managed, though not without considerable effort, to bring Ruth to her
feet.

Fred and Randy were already assisting May to arise, and soon the other
girls and boys were doing what they could to scramble through the deep
snow toward the highway. Here there was a slippery slope of several
feet.

Jack was the first boy up, and Randy came behind him. Then, while the
two Rovers, assisted by Spouter, held fast to each other, they pulled up
one girl after another. In the meanwhile, the other cadets made
something of a chain, and soon all stood at the spot where the box-sled
had overturned.

"All here?" queried Gif.

"I guess so," answered Spouter, knocking some snow from his cap.

The driver of the box-sled, assisted by several of the cadets, had
managed to quiet the horses, some of which were inclined to bolt. The
box-sled was all right, and the boys picked up what they could of the
dry straw, and also shook out and replaced the robes.

"Oh, my, what a dreadful experience!" remarked Annie Larkins.

"Oh, I don't know that it was so very dreadful," returned Ruth. "No one
was hurt."

"But we might have been," added Jennie Mason.

"Oh, I thought it was fun," laughed Ruth.

"It was the fault of that auto," grumbled the liveryman, thinking he had
to defend himself. "He crowded me too close to the edge of the gully."

"That's just what he did!" cried Fatty. "The fellow who was driving that
car ought to be arrested."

"Did you get his number, Fatty?" questioned Fred.

"Get his number? I didn't have time to get anything. He just slid by,
and the next thing I knew, I was turning a somersault in the air and
diving right down into the bottom of that hole;" and at this remark the
other cadets had to smile.

The cadets assisted the girls back into the box-sled, and then they
moved off once more, Jack and Gif both cautioning the driver to be
careful.

Now that the danger was past, the young folks soon recovered from their
scare, and then, to put all in a better humor, Andy started another
school song, in which all joined lustily. Thus they soon rolled into
town, and a little later came up to the entrance of the Clearwater
grounds.

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