atue, and the two huge balls of
snow fell squarely on Sunny Boy, just as Daddy and Grandpa Horton, who
had come home from the office early, stepped out on the back porch.

Sunny Boy was too surprised to be frightened, and before he had time to
wonder what had struck him, Daddy had him out and was brushing the snow
out of his ears and eyes.

"Are you hurt, Sunny Boy?" asked Harry. "I didn't mean to knock the
snow man over, honestly I didn't."

"There's snow down my neck," said Sunny Boy, wriggling. "But nothing
hurt me. Only the snow man is all gone."

There he lay, that beautiful snow man, in two pieces, several pieces in
fact, for the balls had broken apart when they fell.

"Never mind," said Daddy Horton cheerfully. "You can easily build
another snow man. And the boys will help you, perhaps tomorrow."

"To-morrow is New Year's," announced Oliver Dunlap. "I have to go to
see my grandma. But I can help build a snow man the day after that."

The other boys promised to help build another snow man whenever Sunny
Boy asked them to, and then, as they were going into the house, Mrs.
Baker called to Daddy Horton.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Horton," she said, hurrying out with a scarf tied
over her pretty hair. "My nephew just telephoned to know if he could
take Nelson and Ruth bobsledding on the hill before dinner. They are
at dancing school this afternoon; but I wonder if you wouldn't let
Sunny Boy go. He hasn't had any fun at all to-day. This morning he
came home with Ruth because she was cold and cried, and then this
afternoon the snow man fell on him. My nephew is very careful, and he
would be glad to take all these boys. May I tell him they will meet
him at the Hill? He is on the 'phone now."

"Oh, Daddy, let me go!" cried Sunny Boy. "I never went on a bobsled.
Please, Daddy."

Mr. Horton knew Blake Garrison, Mrs. Baker's nephew, and he knew he was
careful and very fond of younger children. Blake was a senior in high
school and had a splendid sled. It was just like him to think of his
little cousins and to want to give them pleasure. So Sunny Boy was
allowed to go, and the other boys went with him. They had all started
to go coasting anyway, they explained to Mr. Horton, when they passed
Sunny Boy's house and Oliver told them about the snow man. Their
mothers would not worry, they said, if they came home by five o'clock.

"Hello, everybody!" said Blake Garrison, when the six small boys found
him