CHAPTER XVI
THE FIRST NIGHT OUT
“Well, it’s started in to snow!”
Jud Elderkin made this surprising statement after he had gone to the door to take a peep at the weather.
“You must be fooling, Jud,” expostulated Tom, “because when I looked out not more’n fifteen minutes ago the moon was shining like everything.”
“All right, that may be, but she’s blanketed behind the clouds right now, and the snow’s coming down like fun,” asserted Jud.
“Seems that we didn’t get here any too soon, then,” chuckled Bluff.
“Oh! a little snow wouldn’t have bothered us any,” laughed Jack. “We’d never think of minding a heavy fall at home, and why should we worry now?”
“That’s a fact,” Bobolink went on to remark, with a look of solid satisfaction on his beaming face. “Plenty of wood under the shed near by, 113 and enough grub to feed an army. We’re all right.”
After several of them had gone to verify Jud’s statement, and had brought back positive evidence in the shape of snowballs, the boys again clustered around the jolly fire and continued to talk on various subjects that chanced to interest them.