A Great Appointment (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Strike. t ARLY in November winter began in earnest. " The water looks cold, but how lovely the snow is here!" commented Helen. "Every stump has become a picture in its white drapery; the smaller trees are muffled in white, while the pines stand out like white-capped sentinels. It is very striking." " You will indeed find this snow striking when you plod up and down this hill through drifts higher than your head," said Wilbur, smiling at his enthusiastic sister. Helen admitted it was not so poetical, and rejoiced when a low-spirited thermometer made the snow a marble pavement. " I was dreading shoveling snow," said Wilbur; " but except to keep it so we can get in at the door and see out of the window, Jack Frost saves me the trouble, for it is so soon packed down, and it makes a good banking around the house." " Our Hill of Difficulty seems to be appropriated now by every youngster in town," said Helen. " It is fun to watch the bobsleds, but torisk your life meeting one at the curve is not so picturesque." " People up north enjoy the sports of winter instead of growling about the cold," said Wilbur, as he settled himself to work. Helen went to the kitchen with a puzzled face. Wilbur had forgotten meat the day before, but bean soup had done nicely. There was a fair supply of vegetables in the house; so Helen got up as nice a dinner as possible without the meat. "Helen, I did not forget the meat," Wilbur said, as he served the bean soup. " The truth is, I haven't a cent in my pocket. I helped too generously in the Jones matter, and I had to lay in wood and coal and get our base-burner; and double windows had to be put on, everybody said. If I could only get a well here ! To think of going down this hill for our water all winter nearly k...