s very simple.

When the boys and girls had brought a number of the long, thin poles to
him, Uncle Toby took the poles, one at a time, and laid them carefully
across the tops of the white walls. Each end of the pole rested on the
wall, and when all were in place, laid close together, there was the
beginning of the roof.

"But it's full of holes," objected Ted, as he went in through the
doorway that had been left, and, looking up, could see the sky in
between the spaces of the poles.

"Yes, of course it's full of holes," laughed Uncle Toby. "All you have
to do is to plaster some snow in the cracks, and then cover the poles
with more snow and you'll have a roof to your house that won't fall in
on you."

"Why, how easy!" cried Tom. "It's a wonder we didn't think of that
ourselves."

"You'll know how next time," replied Uncle Toby. "Bring a few more
poles."

This the children did, even Trouble dragging over some of the smallest
ones from the pile. Then the roof was ready for its coating of snow, and
the children began tossing it on with their hands and from shovels.

At first the snow dropped through some of the larger cracks between the
poles, but these were soon filled, and then a solid mass of white was
spread over the roof of the snow house.

"I'm going to see if I can't plaster some snow over the poles from
inside, so they won't show," decided Ted, when the outside top of the
roof was finished. "Then it will look like a solid snow roof."

The other boys helped with this, but it was not as easy as they had
thought it would be. For often after they had stuck a handful of snow
on the ceiling inside, it would fall down, once or twice right in their
faces.

But at last they had the inside poles pretty well plastered over with
snow, and the house was finished. There was a doorway, and two windows,
and over the door a blanket was hung. Uncle Toby put some sheets of ice
in the windows, and they looked just like glass.

"Oh, this is the nicest snow house I ever saw!" cried Janet.

"It's like a fairy one!" exclaimed Mary. "I never dreamed of one so nice
as this."

"It's the best one we ever made," said Ted, and the other boys agreed
with him.

But the fun was only beginning. The girls had been promised, if they
helped with the making of the snow house, that they could have a play
party in it for themselves and, if they chose, their dolls.

"We'll ask Aunt Sallie for something to eat and have the play party
n