rs.
Martin of their journey. For some time each one had been planning to
come to visit their relatives, Aunt Jo from her home in Clayton and
Uncle Frank from his Western ranch in Montana. Of course he had started
some time before Aunt Jo did, as he had farther to travel. But they both
reached the railroad junction, not far from Cresco, at the same time.
Then they came the rest of the way together, arriving in the midst of
the storm.

"Well, we're glad you're here," said Mrs. Martin, "and the children are
delighted. They knew we had some surprise for them, though we did not
tell them you were expected. Now I expect they'll hardly sleep,
planning things to do in the snow and on the ice."

Indeed Ted and Jan did not go to sleep at once, but talked to each other
from their rooms until Mrs. Martin sent Nora up to tell them if they did
not get quiet they could not have fun with Aunt Jo and Uncle Frank.

"Oh, it's snowing yet, Jan!" cried Ted, as he jumped out of bed the next
morning. "It's going to be a fine storm!"

"That's good!" laughed Janet. "I wonder if Uncle Frank knows how to
build a snow house."

"We'll ask him. Come on! Let's hurry down and see if he's up yet."

Uncle Frank was up, and so was Aunt Jo and the whole family, except
Trouble, for it was later than the Curlytops thought.

"Make a snow house? Of course I know how!" laughed Uncle Frank. "Many a
one I've made out on the prairie when I've been caught in a blizzard."

"Why don't you build a snow bungalow?" asked Aunt Jo.

"What's a bungalow?" asked Jan.

"Well, it's a sort of low, one-story house, with all the rooms on one
floor," explained her aunt. "There is no upstairs to it."

"We did build a snow house, and it hadn't any upstairs," said Ted. "But
Nicknack, our goat, saw his picture in one of the glass-ice windows, and
he butted a hole in the wall."

"Well, he's a great goat!" laughed Uncle Frank. "But if you're going to
build another snow house, do as Aunt Jo says, and make it a low
bungalow. Then it won't be so easy to knock down. We build low houses
out West so the wind storms won't knock them down so easily, and you can
pretend your goat is a wind storm."

"That'll be fun!" laughed Ted.

"And we'll make the bungalow with sides and a roof of wood," went on
Aunt Jo, "and cover the boards with snow. Then it will look just like a
snow house, but it will be stronger. I'll help you. I'm going to build a
bungalow myself this summer," she went