"Oh, look!" cried Weezie. "See there!"
She pointed off among the trees and there, walking through the storm, toward the children, was a little old woman, wrapped in a big fur coat. She tramped over the snow and over the underbrush like a man.
"Come with me!" cried the old woman, waving her hands toward the children. "Come with me and bring your dog!"
"COME WITH ME!" CRIED THE OLD WOMAN.
And, hardly knowing why they did so, the children followed the strange woman through the storm, with Thump whining and keeping close to Rodney and Nat.
ADVENTURE IX
SANTA CLAUS
For Racky, caught out in the snow storm, just as the children had been, did not know what to do. The cold, white flakes swirled around his legs, and fell on his stiff, wooden arms, chilling him all the way into his glue, by which he was held together.