One morning Bobby awoke before daylight. It might have been the middle of the night except that, far down in the still house, he heard a muffled1 scrape and clank as Martin set the furnace in order for the day. Bobby knew six o'clock by these dull, distant, comfortable sounds. The air in the room was very frosty and Bobby's nose was as cold as a dog's; but underneath2 the warm double blanket and the eider-down quilted comforter Bobby had made himself a warm nest. In this he curled in a tight little ball. Not for worlds would he have stretched his legs down into shivery regions, and though he was not drowsy3 and did not care to sleep, not for worlds would he have left his lair4 before the radiator5 had warmed.
So he lay there waiting and watching where the window ought to be for the first signs of daylight. Bobby liked to amuse himself trying to define just when the window became visible. He never could. So this morning, some time, no time, Bobby saw a dull gray rectangle where darkness had been, and knew that day had arrived. Over in the corner the radiator was singing softly with the first steam. Slowly the reluctant daylight filtered in, showing in dim outline the familiar objects in the room.
Bobby was just dozing6 when an unexpected sound from outside brought him wide awake. He sat up in bed the better to hear. Far in the distance, but momently nearing, rang a faint jingle7 of bells. At the same moment there began a methodical _scrape, scrape, scrape_ immediately outside the house.
Without a thought of the cold air of the room, nor the warm flannel8 dressing9 gown, nor the knit bedroom socks, Bobby leaped out and pattered to the window. This was covered thick with frost crystals, but Bobby breathed on them, and rubbed them with the heel of his palm, and so acquired a sight-hole.
"Snow!" he murmured ecstatically to himself.
The outer world was very still and bathed in a cold half-light. Over everything lay a thick covering of white. The lawn, the sidewalks, the street, the roofs of houses were hidden by it; the top of the fence was outlined with it; great mantles10 draped the post tops and the fans of the fir tree; every branch and twig11 of every tree bore its burden; Martin, wielding12 a very broad wooden shovel13, was engaged in clearing a way to the front gate. Just as Bobby looked out, the milkman, his vehicle on runners and his team decorated with the strings14 of bells that had aroused the little boy, drove up, dropped his hitch-weight and with the milkman's peculiar15 rapid gait, trotted16 around to the back door. The breath of Martin and the milkman and his two horses ascended17 in the still air like steam. Bobby heard the loud shrieking19 of the snow as it was trodden, and knew that it must be very cold.
He dressed and went down stairs. Amanda, with her head tied in a duster, was putting things to rights. Bobby could find none of his snow clothes and Amanda was unable or unwilling20 to help him, so to his disappointment he could not join Martin. However, he opened the front door and peeked21 at the cold-looking thermometer.
"My," said he to Amanda, scurrying22 back to the new-lighted fire, "it's only four above!"
This information he proffered23 with an air of pride to each member of the family as he or she appeared. Bobby took a personal satisfaction in the coldness of the weather, as though he had ordered it himself.
In the meantime he watched Martin from the window. Shortly the municipal snow-plow passed, throwing the snow to right and left, its one horse plodding24 patiently along the sidewalk, its driver humped over, smoking his pipe. One of Bobby's ambitions used to be to drive the municipal snow-plow when he grew up.
After breakfast, in the customary sequence of events, came lessons. They naturally seemed interminable, and indeed, lasted much longer than usual, because Bobby was unable to give his whole mind to the task. At last they were over. Under Mrs. Orde's supervision25 Bobby donned (a) heavy knit, woollen leggings that drew on over his shoes and pinned to his trousers above the knee; (b) fleece-lined arctic overshoes; (c) a short, thick, cloth jacket; (d) a long knit tippet that went twice around his neck, crossed on his chest, again at the small of his back, passed around his waist, and tied in front; (e) a pair of red knit mittens26; (f) a tasselled knit cap that pulled down over his ears. Thus equipped, snow- and cold-proof, he passed through the refrigerator-like storm porch, and stood on the front steps.
The sun was up and before him the facets27 of the snow sparkled like millions and millions of tiny diamonds. Across it the shadows of the trees lay blue. In Bobby's nostrils28 the crisp air nipped delightfully29 just short of pain.
What did Bobby do first? Waded30, to be sure. He found the deepest drift, augmented31 somewhat by Martin's shovel, and wallowed laboriously32 and happily through it. Twice he was unable to extricate33 his foot in time to prevent a glorious tumble from which he arose covered from crown to toe with the powdery crystals. The temperature was so low that they did not melt, although just inside the tops of the arctics thin bands of snow packed tight. These Bobby occasionally removed with his forefinger34.
Bobby waded happily. On either side the broad walk were tall mounds35 of the snow that Martin had shovelled36 aside. Bobby found these waist-deep. The lawn itself was only knee-deep, but it offered a beautiful smooth surface. Duke appeared about this time and frisked back and forth37 madly, his forefeet extended, his chest to the earth, his face illuminated38 with a joyous39 doggy grin. He would run directly at Bobby, as though to collide with him, swerve40 at the last moment and go tearing away in circles, his hind-legs tucked well under him. The smooth white surface of the lawn became sadly marred41. Bobby was vexed42 at this and uttered fierce commands to which Duke paid not the slightest attention. The little boy made patterns in which he stepped conscientiously43, pretending he could not "get off the track." Of course he tried to make snowballs, but tossed from him in disgust the feather-light result.
"No packing," said he.
About this time Martin reappeared, after his own breakfast, to finish cleaning the walks. Bobby begged the fire shovel and assisted.
When lunch time came Bobby entered the storm-porch and stood patiently while he was brushed off. The entrance to the warm air inside promptly45 turned the crystals still adhering to the interstices of the knit garments into glittering drops of water. Bobby made tiny little puddles46 where he disrobed--to his delight and Amanda's disgust. The damp clothes were hung to dry behind the kitchen stove, and Bobby sat down to a tremendous lunch.
After lunch Bobby went out-doors again, but the novelty had worn off and his main thought was one of impatience47 for three o'clock to release his friends from school. The snow was not yet packed well enough to make the sleighing very good, but everybody in town was out. Cutters, their thills to one side so the driver could see past the horse; two-seated higher sleighs; the gorgeous plumed48 and luxurious49 conveyances50 of the elite--all these streamed by, packing the street every moment into a better and better surface.
And then, before Bobby had realized it could be so late, a first, faint, long-drawn and peculiar shout began far away; grew steadily51 in volume. Bobby ran out to the middle of the road.
This street began at the top of a low, long hill eight blocks above the Orde place and ended three blocks below. Coming toward him rapidly Bobby saw a long dark object from which the sound issued. In a moment, slowing every foot because of the level ground and the still heavy snow surface of the road-bed, it passed him. He saw a ten-foot pair of bobs laden52 with children seated astraddle the board. Each child held up the legs of the one behind. In front, the steersman, his feet braced53 against the cross-pieces, guided by means of ropes leading to the points of the leading sled. At the rear the "pusher off" half reclined, graceful54 and nonchalant. With the exception of the steersman, who was too busy, each had his mouth wide open and was expirating in one long-drawn continuous vowel-sound. This vowel-sound was originally the first part of the word "out." It had long since become conventionalized, but still served its purpose as a warning.
Slower and slower crept the bobs. The passengers ceased yelling and began to move their bodies back and forth in jerks, as does the coxwain of a racing55 shell. Even after the bobs had come to a complete standstill, they sat a moment on the off-chance of another inch of gain. Then all at once the compact missile disintegrated56. The steersman made a mark in the snow at the side to show how far they had gone. Three seized the ropes and began to drag the bobs back toward the hill. The rest fell in, trudging57 behind.
But already from the group at the top, confused by distance, other swift black objects at spaced intervals58 had detached and came hurtling down. Some of them were bob-sleds; others hand-sleds carrying but a single passenger. Bobby stood by the gate post watching them. Each pair of bobs made its best on distance, trying for the record of the "farthest down." Although the temptation must have been great, nobody cheated by so much as the smallest push.
Bobby owned a sled on which he used to coast. It reposed59 now in the barn. He wanted very much to slide down hill, but he left the sled in its resting place. Why? Because already Bobby had grown into big boy's estate. He knew his sled would arouse derision and contempt. It had flat runners! And it curved far up in front! And it was built on a skeleton framework! What Bobby wanted, if he were to join the coasting world at all, was a long, low, solid, rakish-built affair with round "spring runners." Even "three-quarters" would not do for his present ideas.
By now the hill was alive. A steady succession of arrow-like flights was balanced by the slow upward crawlings, on either side, of dozens returning afoot. The mark set by the first bobs had been passed and passed again. New records became a matter of inches.
At last Bobby saw bearing down on him a magnificent bobs that had not before appeared. It was gliding60 evenly where others usually began to slow up. Its board was twelve feet long. Foot-rails obviated61 the necessity of holding legs. Its sleds were long and substantial and evidently built solely62 as bob-sleds and not, as most, to be detached and used for hand sleds as well. The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration63 that this was a "spring bobs." That is to say: the board connecting the sleds was not of rigid64 pine, like the others, but of hickory which bent65 like a buck-board. When the occupants "jounced," the spring of this board naturally helped the bobs to keep going for some distance after it would ordinarily have come to a stand-still.
This scientific bobs easily excelled all previous records. Its steersman made a triumphant66 mark, a full half-block beyond the farthest. So lost in admiration of the vehicle had Bobby been that he had failed even to glance at its occupants. Now as they returned, dragging the bobs after them, he recognized in the steersman Carter Irvine, and in the others the rest of his intimate friends. At the same instant they recognized him and greeted him with a shout.
"Come on slide!" they called.
Bobby joyously67 laid hand on the steer-rope and began to help up the hill.
The centre of the street was entirely68 given over to the coasters darting69 down. On either side those ascending70 toiled71, helped occasionally by the good-natured driver of a cutter or delivery sleigh. Then the steer-ropes were passed around a runner support of the cutter and held by the steersman who perched on the front of the bobs. Thus if the bobs upset, or the horse went too fast, he could detach the bobs from the cutter by the simple expedient72 of letting go the rope. All the others immediately piled on to get the benefit of the ride. Some preferred to stand atop the cutter's runners. It lent a pleasant sensation of a sort of supernatural gliding, this standing73, upright and motionless, but nevertheless moving forward at a good rate of speed. Certain drivers refused, however, to allow these liberties, but scowled74 blackly when addressed by the usual cheerful "Give us a ride, Mister?" To catch surreptitious rides with them was considered a desirable feat44. Certain daring youngsters stole up behind and crouched75 low against the runners. Occasionally they escaped detection, but generally tasted the sting of the whip-lash as it curled viciously backward. Then arose from the whole hill the derisive76 cry of "whip behind!"
At the top Bobby found a large crowd awaiting its turn. Some he knew, others were strangers to him. All classes were represented, rich and poor, rough and gentle. To one side the girls and smallest boys were sliding decorously a hundred feet or so down the deeper snow of the gutter77. They sat facing forward on high framework sleds with flat runners, one foot on either side. Whenever the sled showed indications of speed, the feet were used as brakes. The little girls were dressed very warmly in leggings, arctics, flannel petticoats and heavy dresses, and wore tied close about their heads knit or fuzzy gray hoods78 that framed their red cheeks bewitchingly. Bobby had always coasted in this manner, but now he looked on them with a sort of pitying contempt.
The main group stood waiting. New-comers fell in behind so that some rough semblance79 of rotation80 was maintained. The bobs' crews settled themselves with the deftness81 of long practice. Then bending to his task the pusher at the rear dug his toes in, while the others hunched82. With a creak the runners gave way their hold on the frozen snow; the bobs began slowly to move. As momentum83 and the downward curve of the hill exerted their influence, the pusher found his task easier and easier. His then the nice decision as to just how long to continue to push. To jump on too soon was a disgrace; to delay too long was a certainty of rolling over and over in the snow while your bobs went on without you. The artistic84 pusher came aboard gracefully85, with a flying, forward leap, at the precise moment when the equilibrium86 of forces permitted him to alight as softly as a thistledown. The bobs shot away in a whirl of snow-dust.
Immediately stepped forth a tall, gawky youth clad in dull brown, faded garments, without mittens, without overshoes, his hands purple, but with a long, low, narrow sled as tall as himself. His left hand clasped the front, his right hand the back. The sled slanted87 across his body. A dozen swift steps he ran forward flung the sled headlong with a smack88 against the road and followed lightly to the little deck. There he crouched, reclining on his left forearm, his left thigh89 doubled under him, his head thrust forward, his right leg extended. A magnificent start! So perfect was his balance that the merest touch of his right toe to one side or the other sufficed for steering90. In an instant he shot close to the bobs ahead.
"Out! out! out! out!" he cried in a sharp stacatto--very different from the general long-drawn out warning.
The bobs swerved91 and he darted92 by with lofty and oblivious93 superiority.
In the meantime another boy had stepped forward carrying his sled directly in front of him, a hand on either side. He, too, ran forward, but cast himself and sled with a mighty94 crash into the road. He disappeared lying flat on his stomach, his hands grasping each a projecting runner, his legs spread wide apart.
"Belly95 flop96!" remarked the steersman of the next bobs, waiting. No great speed was possible by this antiquated97 method, so it was necessary to give the despised belly-flopper a good start.
Among those whose turns did not come soon was great rivalry98 in the matter of sled-runners. Flat bands were negligible and assigned to girls, quarter-rounds and half-rounds were somewhat but not much better, although several orthodox-shaped sleds were fitted with them. As between three-quarters and full-round spring runners, however, was room for argument, and endless and partisan99 discussion obtained. This was a matter of opinion. A question of comparison was the relative wear and brightness of the metals. This must be caused by use only. The employment of sandpaper would be to your small boy what--well, what dynamiting100 trout101 would be to your fly-fisherman.
The twilight102 and the frost were already descending103. Soon the lamp-lighter with his torch and his little ladder came nimbly down the street. On the down trip Bobby found his mother waiting by the gate, a heavy shawl thrown over her head and shoulders. In the darkness, and after the cold, pale moon had climbed the heavens, the hill continued thronged104. About eight o'clock many of the younger grown-ups arrived. But Bobby had to go to bed, and he fell asleep with snatches of conversation, the shriek18 of runners and the weird105 ululation of warning ringing in his ears.
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