ed Ted.

"I saw a snow man in Grace Turner's yard last year," said Jan, "and that
one had pieces of coal for eyes."

"That's just what we'll use!" cried Tom.

"I'll get the coal in our cellar," offered Ted, as he ran away to get
the black lumps.

"Bring a lot and we'll make some buttons for his coat," called Tom.

"I will," Ted answered.

"Don't get the lumps too big!" shouted Jan.

"No, I won't," replied Ted; then he ran on to do his errand.

Two of the largest chunks of coal were stuck in the snow head of the
man, and now he really began to look like something. The rest of the
coal was stuck in the larger snowball and the black lumps looked just
like coat buttons in two rows.

"There's his nose!" exclaimed Tom, as he fastened a lump of snow in the
middle of the man's fat face. "And here's his mouth," he went on as he
made a sort of cut in the snow with a stick.

"Oh, that doesn't look like a mouth," cried Janet. "I know a better way
than that."

"Pooh! girls don't know how to make snow men!" exclaimed Ted. "You'd
better go and get your doll, Janet."

"I do so know how to make a snow man, Theodore Martin! And if you think
I don't I won't tell you the best way to make a mouth! So there!" and
Janet, with her head held high in the air, and her nose up-tilted,
started away, taking Trouble with her.

"Oh, I didn't mean anything!" protested Ted. "I was only foolin', Jan!"

"That's right!" added Tom. "Go on, tell us how to make a good mouth.
Mine doesn't look much like one, but that's the way I always make 'em
when I build a snow man."

"Well, I'll tell you," said Jan, turning back. "You want to take a piece
of red flannel or red paper. Then it looks just like the snow man had
red lips and was stickin' out his red tongue. I mean sticking," she
added, as she remembered to put on her "g."

"Say! that _is_ a good way to make a mouth, Ted!" cried Tom. "We'll do
it. But where'll we get the red flannel?"

"I've got a piece of red cloth left over from my doll's dress," went on
Janet. "I'll get that for you."

"Thanks," murmured Ted. "I guess girls do know something about snow
men," he added to Tom.

"Course they do," the other boy agreed. "I like your sister Janet."

Ted began to feel that, even if Janet was a year younger than he, she
might be smarter in some ways than he was. He was sure of it when he saw
how well the snow man looked with his red tongue and lips which Tom
made from the scarlet cloth Jan g