Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-26

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cried Davie. cause you're man.
Nellies a nurse girl''
"She is not we only call her
nurse cause we love her, mother
says" cried Dorothy: anyway,
Henrys only just talking, aren't
you, Henry? And you are going
to make the slide for us, aren't
you"
Henry tilted back his hat and
scratched his head.
81 guess I are" he said with a
grin, Il gen'a1ly do wind up by
dom as you say. Miss Dor'thy."
"Goody! Goodyl Goody!" sang
that young lady gleefully. jumping
up and down until her red cap slid
back and golden curls bobbed ex-
citedly, where's the best placer"
Back yard" said Henry, jerking
his thumb toward the rear of the
house; your mother wouldn't want
no carryin's on out here, with COM
p'ny li'ble to be comm any minute"
Come on, then" cried Davie, run
ming ahead, wen all help"
They picked out a spot near the
stable for the slide Henry scratched
his HedQ anu STUDIED.
We've gotta have somethin to
begin on" he said; 1--WE can't jest
pile up snow. It'd never get solid
enough to mount TO shucks. Wait
minute! / have it,"
He disappeared into the carriage
house door, returning a moment
later with big empty barrel, which
he placed on the selected spot Then
he got another barrel and placed it
beside the first one, while the chill
dren watched wonderingiy, trying to
figure out just where the slide would
come in.
Are we going TO bump over the
barrels? ' whispered Mary Elizabeth
to Dorothy. as Henry went into the
stable for the third time.
"S-shi Here he comes. Now We'll
see,' said Dorothy.
Henry came out of the stable with
q big box and a little box He
placed the big box In front of the
two barrels and the little box just
below it.
down to the real maxim o. the
Slide" he cried in his big voice,
"a slide, like a lot of other things,
don't amount to much less its got
a backbone"
Davie surveyed the barrels and
boxes with doubt.
ut don't look much like a slide
to me-" he remarked.
Henry grinned. Nor to me,
neither, right now, but you jest
wait about twenty minutes. An if
you mean 1t bout wantin' to help
me, it's time to begin.
1.-The idee," Henry went on, as he
began to throw snow on top of the
barrels and boxes" is to get the
snow all packed down between EN-
an then smooth it over an pack
1t all around SOS the sleds'll have
a nice, slantin' surface. You climb
up on one side, get your sled fixed,
set on 1t, git somebody to give you
a push, an go slidin' down tie in
cline, lickety-split half way across
the yard. Now, what do you think
o. my idee?"
-yutifuln squealed Dorothy
In delight, wen get our shovels
right now, Henry" She ran across
the yard and into the basement, with
Mary Elizabeth close behind her.
In moment they came out W tn the
two shovels that belonged to the
furnace. Davie ran to get one, and
came out with the fire-shovel and a
long face.
IT don't want to use this" he said,
Its only a baby shovel"
Give it to me, them" cried Dor
othy, this is no time to begin to
pout, Davie Dear. We want to get
this slide done some time. 1 guess"
And she fell to shoveling with m.
Mary Elizabeth followed suit, and
Davie, after hesitating moment,
began to work hard, too.
OF course, the real work was done
by Henry. Every little while he
would pound the snow down with
the back of his shovel until it was
as firm and unyield.ng as the ground
itself.