"That'll be fun!" cried Lola.
With their shovels the Curlytops and the others were soon piling snow up around the inside walls of the white house. Then the benches were cut into shape, and they did make good places to sit on; though it was too cold to lie down, Mrs. Martin said when she came out to look at the playhouse, and she warned the children not to do this.
"We ought to have a chimney on the house," suggested Tom, after he had gone outside to see how it looked.
"We can't build a fire, can we?" asked Jan, somewhat surprised.
"No, of course not!" laughed Ted. "A fire would melt the snow. But we can make a chimney and pretend there's smoke coming out of it."
"Let's do it!" cried Lola.
"All right," agreed Tom. "You're the lightest, Teddy, so you get up on the roof. You won't cave it in. I'll toss you up some snow and you can make it square, in the shape of a chimney."
This Ted did, and with a stick he even marked lines on the snow chimney to make it look as if made of bricks.
"That's fine!" cried Tom. "It looks real!"
"It would look realer if we had something like black smoke coming out," declared Janet.