. The adventures of Joel Pepper . Joel Pepper; not asingle one! Whered you go ? asked David, suddenly. *Oh, down to the Centre, said Joel, to two— no, I guess four stores, and then he broughtme home — that is, almost home. He droppedme at the corner. O dear me ! exclaimed Polly. Oh, jolly! look at the snow ! screamed Joel,flying out of his chair. And sure enough,while they had been so engrossed, there it hadbeen coming down faster and faster, until itwas a powdery veil, almost too thick to seethrough. So somewhere in the middle of the morning,Joel and David started off with their sled, draw-in
. The adventures of Joel Pepper . Joel Pepper; not asingle one! Whered you go ? asked David, suddenly. *Oh, down to the Centre, said Joel, to two— no, I guess four stores, and then he broughtme home — that is, almost home. He droppedme at the corner. O dear me ! exclaimed Polly. Oh, jolly! look at the snow ! screamed Joel,flying out of his chair. And sure enough,while they had been so engrossed, there it hadbeen coming down faster and faster, until itwas a powdery veil, almost too thick to seethrough. So somewhere in the middle of the morning,Joel and David started off with their sled, draw-ing on their mittens with the greatest satisfac-tion, and bobbing good-by to the others watchingthem from the windows. All went well, until Joe proposed that theyshould go to Simons Hill, a long steep thor-oughfare some two miles distant, that swung atthe bottom very abruptly into the trudging off there, they chmbed it withdespatch, and began to coast down. Oh, whickets ! cried Joel, who was steering, / i^r^ ^^ »^. GEE-HAW-GEE-HAW-WHEE-DIMP-DUMP ADVENTURES OF JOEL PEPPER 439 little Davie hanging on behind, more than three-quarters afraid, though he wouldnt let Joel seeit for all the world. * Gee-haw-gee-haw-whee-dimp-dump, as they flew over the rises, bump-ing and twisting from side to side. Oh, take care, Joe, screamed David, interror, we most w-ent over, for on one sidethe road ran down abruptly into a thicket ofevergreen and scrub oaks. Hoh, were going straight! sang out Joel, youre always such a fraid-cat,- David Pepper. I aint a fraid-cat, protested Davie, andI want to go home to mother. Well, you are going down again, eleven, no,I guess sixty times, declared Joel, after ! This last wasbrought out of him by a sudden slewing to theside, where the slope ran off to the evergreen,scrub oak thicket; but Joel missed the edge byabout an inch, so he screamed with delight, andwhizzed safely down the rest of the hill. I aint going down ev
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