CHAPTER III.

VALVE MAKING.

One morning, when Rollo awaked, he heard a sharp clicking against the window.

"Nathan," said he, "Nathan, I believe there is a snow-storm."

But Nathan was too sleepy to hear or understand.

Rollo looked up, but there was a curtain against the window, and he could not see very well. He listened. He heard a low, moaning sound made by the wind, and a continuance of the sharp clicking which he had heard at first.

When he had got up, and dressed himself, he found that there was a violent snow-storm. At first he was glad of it, for he liked snow-storms. But then, pretty soon, he was sorry, for it had been winter a long time, and he was impatient for the spring.

After breakfast, he and Nathan read and studied for two hours, under their mother's direction. When they were released from these duties, Rollo proposed to Nathan that they should go out into the shed, and see how the storm came on. There was a large door in the shed, opening towards the street, where they could stand, protected from the wind, and see the drifts of snow.

They accordingly put on their caps, and went. They found that the snow was pretty deep. It was heaped up upon the fence and against the windows; and there was a curious-shaped drift, with the top curled over in a singular manner, running along from the corner of the shed towards the garden gate.

"Ah," says Rollo, "when it clears up, I mean to go and wade through it."

1. Did the pair go outside?
2. what did they wear to do this?
3. who woke first?
4. what told his there was a snow-storm?
5. did they eat a meal?
6. what?
7. when he got up, could Rollo see out?
8. why?
9. how many sounds could he hear?
10. name one

Numbered answers:
1. yes
2. their caps
3. Rollo
4. Rollo
5. yes
6. breakfast
7. no
8. there was a curtain against the window
9. two
10. moaning sound made by the wind