se, during which he looked into the blazing fire,

e, weren't we, Flossie

in a low voice "Listen

He didn't begin it right. He must say: 'O

rford

been so long since I've told a story to li

s it must have been the same sort of a farm you and Flossie went to, Freddie, for we had cows and horses and pigs and

though I'm an old man now, I still think so. But the good t

hers and sisters, and finally when I grew up, and thought

ked Flossie, with her eyes wid

m, so, instead of staying and helping my father, as I think now I should have done, I ran away to

didn't know much about it. Many a time I wished I was back with my father, but I was too proud to admit th

y too long, for you mig

e got up to put a

es; don't we, Fred

id Freddi

dn't like my kind. Anyhow I kept on working in the city-in one city a

. "Very rich?" and hi

tioned Nan, wi

k to the old farm, and see my father. My mother had died before I went away. Maybe if she had lived I wo

were married and some had died. I found I was a lonesome old man, with few friends, and hardly

e farm, with a lot of money, and saying to my father: 'Now, daddy, you've worked hard enough. You can s

of old times. Well, I did buy the place, and I named it 'Snow Lodge,' for there used to be lots of snow there in the winter time

isters, who had married a man named Burdock, had become very poor. Her husband had died, and she wa

took Henry Burdock to live with me. I felt toward him as t

t of the year here and part of it at Snow Lodge. It

and looked again into the

Lodge any more?" ask

he seemed to be in pain. "I have never gone there since Henry went away," he a

nry run away, as yo

ut that part of it. I like to think of Snow Lodge on the s

In the winter, when the lake is frozen over, there is skating and ice boating on it, and you can fish through the ice. And such hills as

d. Many times I've had a notion to go back there, but somehow I couldn't, since-since Henry went away. So I came here to live

red what had happened between Henry Burdock and his uncle, Mr. Carford, that caused Henry to go away. Also Bert wondered if Mr. Carf

don't suppose it will ever be used again. But I've to

said Nan. "We enjo

ght!" excl

bears there?" asked Fred

Flossie, not to let her brother g

't grow here-only b

"Snow Lodge isn't very far from here, you know, so you have the same kind o

ry about you. I'll bring the sled around, and my sister Emma can tuck you in. Then I'll ge

chool we all brought something just before vacation, and

hanksgiving, d

left for Christmas," said Fr

make other people happ

atting Fre

Miss Carford had warmed some bricks to put down in the straw, to keep the ch