ave him.

"Now if we only had a hat for him he'd look great!" cried Ted, when the
last touches were being put on the snow man, even ears having been given
him, though, of course, he could not hear through them.

"I know where there's an old hat--a big stovepipe one," said Jan. She
meant a tall, shiny, silk hat.

"Where is it?" asked Tom.

"Up in our attic. Daddy used to wear it, mother said, but it's too
old-fashioned now. Maybe she'd let us take it."

Mrs. Martin said the children might have the old tall hat, which was
broken in one place, but the snow man did not mind that. It was soon
perched on his head and then a very proper figure indeed he looked, as
he stood up straight and stiff in the yard back of the house.

More than one person stopped to look at what the Curlytops had made and
many smiled as they saw the tall silk hat on the snow man. He even had a
cane, made from a stick, and he was altogether a very proper and stylish
snow man.

Trouble seemed to think the white man with his shiny black hat, was made
for him to play with, for no sooner was it finished than Baby William
began throwing snowballs at "Mr. North," as Mrs. Martin said they ought
to call the gentleman made from white flakes.

"Oh, you mustn't do that!" cried Ted, as he saw what his little brother
was doing. "You'll hit his hat," for one of Trouble's snowballs came
very near the shiny "stovepipe" as Jan had called it.

"Trouble 'ike snow man," said the little fellow, laughing.

"Well, we like him, too," answered Janet, "and we don't want you to
spoil him, baby. Don't throw snowballs at Mr. North."

"Here, I'll help you make a little snow man for yourself," offered Ted
to his brother.

"Oh, dat fun!" laughed the little fellow. "I want a biggest one."

"No, a small one will be better, and then you can throw as many
snowballs at it as you want," went on Ted.

Jan helped Ted make the snow man for Trouble, for Tom and Lola were
called home by their mother. In a short while Trouble's white image was
finished. Jan found more red cloth to make the lips and tongue, Ted got
more coal for eyes and coat buttons and then he made a paper soldier hat
for the small snow man.

"Do you like it, Trouble?" asked his brother, when it was finished.

"Nice," answered Baby William. "Bring it in house to play wif!"

"Oh, no! You mustn't try to do that!" laughed Janet. "If you brought
your snow man into the house he would all melt!"

"All melt away?"