“But I want to. Can’t you and I rig up in something, just for fun?”
“Oh, I say! that would be fun. What can we be? Romeo and Juliet, or Jack and Jill?”
“Oh, no, nothing like that. Something more like Christmas, you know. Well, I’ll think it over through the day, and we’ll fix it up.”
Skating on the lake so early in the morning proved to be glorious exercise. The ice was perfect, and the crisp, clear air filled them with exhilaration.
Both were good skaters, and though they did not attempt fancy figures, they spent nearly an hour skating around the lake.
“That’s the best skate I ever had!” declared Hal, when they concluded to return home.
“It certainly was fine,” declared Patty, “and by the time we’ve walked back to the house, I shall be quite ready for some eggs and bacon.”
“And toast and marmalade,” supplemented Ferris.
“I wonder if Daisy will be down. Does she come down to breakfast usually?”
“Sometimes and sometimes not,” answered Ferris, carelessly. “She’s a law unto herself, is Daisy Dow.”