CHAPTER XXI 

A BOB SLED RACE 

"Whoop! hurrah! it's snowing!" 

Thus shouted Tom one day, as he burst into the library of the Hall, where Dick, Sam and a number of others were perusing books and the latest magazines. 

"Hard?" queried Sam, dropping the magazine he held. 

"No, but steady. Peleg Snuggers says it is going to be a heavy fall, and he generally knows." 

"And he loves snowstorms so," put in Fred, with a laugh. "Do you remember the time we made a big fort and had a regular battle?" 

"Indeed I do!" cried Larry. "It was great! We ought to have something of that sort this winter." 

"I was hoping we'd get skating before it snowed," put in Songbird. 

"Well, we can't have all the good things at once," answered Dick. "I think a heavy snowstorm is jolly. Somehow, when it snows I always feel like whistling and singing." 

"And I feel like making up verses," murmured the poet of the school, and went on: 

"Oh, the snow, the beautiful snow, Coming down when the wind does blow. Coming down both day and night, Leaving the earth a wonderful sight! Oh, the snow, the heavenly snow!----" 

"Wetting our feet wherever we go!" 

continued Tom, and added: 

"Oh, the snow, When the wind doth blow, It sets a pace And hits our face And we are froze Down to the toes And in the slush, That's just like mush, We cannot stop, But go ker-flop!" 

"Tom, the first thing you know, you'll be taking Songbird's laurels away from him," observed Larry. 

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who thinks a heavy snowstorm is jolly?
2. What does snow make him feel like doing?
3. Who said it made them feel like making up verses?
4. What did Songbird wish?
5. Who ran into the house yelling that it was snowing?
6. What room did he go into?
7. Were people in there?
8. What were they doing?
9. Who dropped a magazine?
10. What did he ask of Tom?
11. Was he asking about the snowfall?
12. Who loves snowstorms?
13. Who says it's going to be a heavy snowfall?
14. What did Fred want to know if Larry remembered?
15. Did Larry remember it?
16. Did he remember it fondly?
17. What did he say they should do this winter?
18. Who made up rhyming poems about the snow?
19. What did Larry tell Tom he'd be taking from Songbird?
20. Who spoke of having wet feet everywhere?

Numbered answers:
1. Dick.
2. whistling and singing."
3. the poet of the school,
4. unknown
5. Tom
6. the library of the Hall,
7. yes
8. perusing books and the latest magazines.
9. Sam
10. "Hard?"
11. "Whoop! hurrah! it's snowing
12. tom
13. peleg Snuggers
14. the time they made a big fort and had a regular battle
15. yes
16. yes
17. something of that sort
18. the poet of the school
19. Songbird's laurels
20. Tom,