So Midge scampered across the street and rang the Spencer's door bell.
"Won't you come over?" she said, as soon as she saw Delight. "It's an
Ourday, and we're having such fun!"
"No, thank you," said Delight; "you don't need me when you have Gladys."
"Don't be silly!" said Midget. "What's the reason I can't play with you both? Come on."
"Oh, I don't want to come," said Delight pettishly. "Go on back."
So Marjorie went back, alone, walking slowly, for she couldn't understand
Delight's behavior.
But once again in the fun of the snow play, she forgot all about her ill-natured little neighbor.
They built a grand fort, with a flag waving from its summit, and then with soft snowballs for ammunition, they chose sides and had the merriest kind of a battle. Afterward they built a snow man and a snow woman.
These were of heroic size, so big that Mr. Maynard had to climb a step-ladder to put their heads in place.
The man, according to the time-honored tradition of all snow men, wore a battered old high hat, and had a pipe in his mouth, while the old woman wore a sun bonnet and checked apron.