And they started at it, first rolling a big ball which was to be the body of the snow man.
CHAPTER VII
A STRANGE BEDFELLOW
Around and around in the back yard, near what had once been a snow house, but which was only a big drift now, went Ted and Tom, rolling balls to make the snow man. Finally Ted's ball was so large that he could not push it any more.
"What'll I do?" he asked Tom. "Shall I leave it here and make the snow man right in this place?"
"No. I'll help you push it," Tom said. "We want that for the bottom part of the snow man, so it will have to be the biggest ball. Wait, I'll help."
The two boys managed to roll the ball a little farther, and it kept getting larger all the while, for as it rolled more snow clung to it and was packed on.
"There, I guess it's big enough," panted Tom, after a while. "Now, we'll pile my ball on top and then we'll put a head on our man."
"Where's his legs goin' to be?" asked Jan, who came out of the house just then to look on for a while, bringing Trouble with her.
"Oh, we'll carve them out of the lower part of the big snowball," answered Ted. "I'll show you."