The farmer's boy . lide Other boys, and jjerhaps some of the girls, too, was oftenout with his sled. They did a good deal of sliding do^^^lthe steepest kind of liills — indeed, that was the sort theysearched out ; and if a hill had a few liwly humps in il,so much the l)elter. They dashed down tlu deiline inthe most reckless fashion; and tiien ke])t going up a littlehigher to make the descent still faster and moi-e e\i little fellow, who lav flat on his sled and >teered with 0)unrr\ Children in Cicncral 35 his toes, got slewed out of the irat k and went roHinjf owrand over with his
The farmer's boy . lide Other boys, and jjerhaps some of the girls, too, was oftenout with his sled. They did a good deal of sliding do^^^lthe steepest kind of liills — indeed, that was the sort theysearched out ; and if a hill had a few liwly humps in il,so much the l)elter. They dashed down tlu deiline inthe most reckless fashion; and tiien ke])t going up a littlehigher to make the descent still faster and moi-e e\i little fellow, who lav flat on his sled and >teered with 0)unrr\ Children in Cicncral 35 his toes, got slewed out of the irat k and went roHinjf owrand over with his sled in a iloud of llyins^ snow. Youwould think it would Ix- the end of him. He got upda/.cd, and j)ow(iered white from head to foot, and hislij) quivered, and some tears trickled from his eyes. Ina shaky voice he said that he was going home. The otherboys gathered rountl and brushed him off, and WillieHooper lent him his handkerchief, when the boy couldntfind his o\; and they told him how he looked going over. A sUiI ride for the Utile sister and over, and what he ought to have done; and that hewas all right, and to come on, now; there ainl no useof goin indoors just for that; well ha\e a lot of fun yet. 156 The Farmers Boy The boy at length was comforted, and in a few minuteshe was careering do\\Ti the hill with the others, as livelyas ever. By the time a lad got to be six or seven years old heexpected to tind a pair of skates in his Christmas some time after that his head accumulated bumps ofa kind that would be apt to puzzle a phrenologist. Itwas astonishing in what a sudden and unexpected mannerthe skates would slip from under him ! There was noteven a chance for him to throw out his hands to savehimself. He was in luck if he could manage to sit doAATiinstead of going full length. His ankles wobbled unac-countably, and the moment he left off mincing along ina sort of awkward, short-stepped walk and tried tostrike out, down he went. Resides, his skate-stra])
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