You boys think girls like little mean coasts without any fun or danger in them , as if we could n't be brave and strong as well as you . Give me three go-bangs and then we 'll stop . My tumble does n't count , so give me two more and then I 'll be good . '' Jill took her seat as she spoke , and looked up with such a rosy , pleading face that Jack gave in at once , and down they went again , raising a cloud of glittering snow-dust as they reined up in fine style with their feet on the fence . `` It 's just splendid ! Now , one more ! '' cried Jill , excited by the cheers of a sleighing party passing below . Proud of his skill , Jack marched back , resolved to make the third `` go '' the crowning achievement of the afternoon , while Jill pranced after him as lightly as if the big boots were the famous seven-leagued ones , and chattering about the candy-scrape and whether there would be nuts or not . So full were they of this important question , that they piled on hap-hazard , and started off still talking so busily that Jill forgot to hold tight and Jack to steer carefully . Alas , for the candy-scrape that never was to be ! Alas , for poor `` Thunderbolt '' blindly setting forth on the last trip he ever made ! And oh , alas , for Jack and Jill , who wilfully chose the wrong road and ended their fun for the winter ! No one knew how it happened , but instead of landing in the drift , or at the fence , there was a great crash against the bars , a dreadful plunge off the steep bank , a sudden scattering of girl , boy , sled , fence , earth , and snow , all about the road , two cries , and then silence . `` I knew they 'd do it ! '' and , standing on the post where he had perched , Joe waved his arms and shouted : `` Smash-up ! Smash-up ! Run ! Run ! '' like a raven croaking over a battlefield when the fight was done . Down rushed boys and girls ready to laugh or cry , as the case might be , for accidents will happen on the best-regulated coasting-grounds .
They found XXXXX sitting up looking about him with a queer , dazed expression , while an ugly cut on the forehead was bleeding in a way which sobered the boys and frightened the girls half out of their wits .
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