"Clear the lulla " was the general cry on a bright December afternoon, when all the boysand girls of Harmony Village were out enjoying the first good snow of the season. Up anddown three long coasts they went as fast as legs and sleds could carry them. One smoothpath led into the meadow, and here the little folk congregated; one swept across the pond, where skaters were darting about like water-bugs; and the third, from the very top of thesteep hill, ended abruptly at a rail fence on the high bank above the road. There was agroup of lads and lasses sitting or leaning on this fence to rest after an exciting race, and, asthey reposed, they amused themselves with criticising their mates, still absorbed in thismost delightful of out-door sports."Here comes Frank Minot, looking as solemn as a judge," cried one, as a tall fellow ofsixteen spun by, with a set look about the mouth and a keen sparkle of the eyes, fixed onthe distant goal with a do-or-die expression
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