Our papa often hitches up Mollie and Prince on the bob sleds in the evening and takes mamma and all of us children out for a ride and what a fine time we do have. We go to some neighbors and play games and sing songs and have a jolly time.
Other pleasant evenings are spent at home when the neighbors and their children come in.
And then the nice long evenings to read. I think I can learn more in one week in winter than I can in a month in summer. I think a walk on a clear frosty morning gives one a clear brain to learn with. I never missed a day or was tardy during the five months' winter term last year.
And then, the skating and sliding. I can't skate but I enjoy seeing the others. I can slide, though, and have a sled of my own. We have a hill right in front of our school house, and we school children can hardly take time to eat our lunch at noon, we like a slide so well. Our papas say that hill is a "shoe bill," but we children love it.