Publisher's Synopsis
Clear the lulla!" was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boys and girlsof Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up and down three longcoasts they went as fast as legs and sleds could carry them. One smooth path led into the meadow, and here the little folk congregated; one swept across the pond, where skaters were darting aboutlike water-bugs; and the third, from the very top of the steep hill, ended abruptly at a rail fence onthe high bank above the road. There was a group of lads and lasses sitting or leaning on this fence torest after an exciting race, and, as they reposed, they amused themselves with criticising their mates, still absorbed in this most delightful of out-door sports."Here comes Frank Minot, looking as solemn as a judge," cried one, as a tall fellow of sixteenspun by, with a set look about the mouth and a keen sparkle of the eyes, fixed on the distant goalwith a do-or-die expression."Here's Molly LooAnd little Boo!"sang out another; and down came a girl with flying hair, carrying a small boy behind her, so fatthat his short legs stuck out from the sides, and his round face looked over her shoulder like a fullmoon."There's Gus Burton; doesn't he go it?" and such a very long boy whizzed by, that it lookedalmost as if his heels were at the top of the hill when his head was at the bottom!"Hurrah for Ed Devlin!" and a general shout greeted a sweet-faced lad, with a laugh on his lips, afine color on his brown cheek, and a gay word for every girl he passed."Laura and Lotty keep to the safe coast into the meadow, and Molly Loo is the only girl that daresto try this long one to the pond. I wouldn't for the world; the ice can't be strong yet, though it iscold enough to freeze one's nose off," said a timid damsel, who sat hugging a post and screamingwhenever a mischievous lad shook the fenc