"They're great!" cried Tom when he saw them, and that afternoon when school was out, the ice windows were set in the holes in the walls of the snow house.
"'Dis nice place!" Trouble said, when he was taken out to it. "I 'ikes it here! I stay all night!"
"No, I guess you won't stay all night," laughed Tom. "You might freeze fast to the snow bench."
"How plain we can see out of the windows," said Lola. "Oh, see, Ted, here comes your goat! I guess he's looking for you."
"He must 've got loose and 've run out of his stable," said Teddy. "I'll go to fasten him up. Here, Nicknack!" he called as he walked out of the snow house toward his pet.
Nicknack kept on coming toward the white house. He walked up to one of the windows. The sun was shining on it and as Ted looked he cried:
"Oh, I can see Nicknack in the glass window just as if it was a looking glass. And Nicknack can see himself!"
This was true. The goat came to a sudden stop and looked at his own reflection in the shiny ice window. Nicknack seemed much surprised. He stamped in the snow with his black hoofs, and then he raised himself up in the air on his hind feet. At the same time he went:
"Baa-a-a-a! Baa-a-a-a-a!"
"Oh, Nicknack's going to buck!" cried Ted.