"What kind, Curlytop?" the little boy asked.
"To see who can go the longest but not the fastest," answered Teddy. "Come on, it'll be a lot of fun!"
So the little boy and his sister, whose sled, with her on it, had first gotten to the bottom of the hill, went up together with Teddy, to where Jan was waiting for him.
"Oh, Teddy!" cried the little Curlytop girl, laughing, "you did look so funny!"
"I—I sort of felt funny!" replied Teddy. "They're going to race with us," he went on, as he pointed to Wilson Decker and his sister.
"That'll be nice," returned Janet. "Now we'll all get on our sleds in a line at the top of the hill. It doesn't matter who goes first or last, but we must start even, and the one who makes his sled go the longest way to the bottom of the hill beats the race."
They all said this would be fair, and some of the other children gathered at the top of the hill to watch the race, which was different from the others.
"All ready! I'm going to start!" cried Janet, and away she went, coasting down the hill. The other three waited a little, for there was no hurry, and then, one after the other, Wilson, Teddy and Elsie (who was Wilson's sister) started down the hill.
Janet's sled was the first to stop at the bottom, as she had been the first to start, and she cried:
"Nobody can come up to me!"