“Yes, yes, we must get them out at once,” said the assistant teacher. “It doesn’t take much to smother a person under the snow. Work lively, boys!”
They did work lively, throwing the snow on all sides. The teacher worked with them.
“Look out that you don’t hurt somebody with your shovels,” said Jack, cautiously.
Soon he caught sight of a foot and then a leg. He began to pull, and George Strong aided him, and up came Harry Blossom, almost black in the face.
“Oh!” gasped the cadet.
“Who is under there?” demanded George Strong.
“Andy Snow and Pepper Ditmore,” answered Harry. “Oh, get them out if you can! If you don’t, they’ll surely be smothered to death!”
“Yes, we must get them out,” came from Jack. “Come on—work harder than ever!”
CHAPTER XXIV
A CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
It was soon noised around the Hall that two of the cadets had been buried alive in the snow, and the whole school gathered around the collapsed snow house, and as many went to work to dig out Pepper and Andy as could get close enough.