"A big snowstorm! That will be fun!" cried Teddy.
"Maybe not, if it is too big," warned his mother. "Grandpa Martin says we ought to put away an abundance of coal and plenty of things to eat."
"Why?" asked Janet.
"Because we may be snowed in," answered her mother.
CHAPTER II
A RUNAWAY SLED
For a moment Ted and Janet looked at their mother. Sometimes she told them strange things, and she did it with such a serious face that they could not always tell whether or not she was in earnest.
"Do you mean that the snow will come up over the top of the house so we can't go out?" asked Teddy.
He remembered a picture his mother had once showed him of a lonely log cabin in the woods, almost hidden under a big white drift, and beneath the picture were the words: "Snowed in."
"If it comes up over the top of the house we can't ever get out till it melts," went on Jan. "Will it happen that way, Mother? What fun!"