"'Bout a thousand feet, as a bird flies," Janus answered, with a careless gesture.
"Ob, thave me!" wailed Tommy desperately. "I can't thtand any more."
"Why, Tommy, we've hardly begun yet," Harriet retorted smilingly.
"Maybe you haven't, but thome of uth have about finithed," asserted the little, lisping girl.
"For once, Tommy and I agree," groaned Margery.
Not long after the girls turned in for the second time that night. Daybreak would soon send its gray light into their camp on Sokoki Leap. But the day ahead of them was not fated to be, in all respects, a time of calm. Tommy Thompson and even her better-poised companions were to have further opportunities for distinguishing themselves.
CHAPTER XIV
GIVING A TOBOGGAN POINTS
A brilliant sun, gilding the peaks of Chocorua and shining in her eyes, awoke Harriet Burrell.