"I'll hold 'em on and give 'em a ride," offered Russ, who was very kind to his little brother and sister.
"You can have the first ride," said Laddie to Rose, "'cause it's your roller skate."
"I can't go first," answered the little girl. "I don't know how you do it. You go first, Russ."
Russ was very willing to do this. So he took the skate wagon to the top of the sidewalk "hill," as the little Bunkers called it, and then he put one foot on the flat board, to which were fastened the roller-skate wheels.
"You have to push yourself along with one foot, just the same as when you're skating on one skate," explained Russ. "Then when you get to going fast you put the other foot on the board and stand there, and you hold on tight and down you go."
"Show me!" begged Rose, jumping up and down because she was so excited and pleased.
And then Russ went riding downhill, almost as nicely as he coasted on the snow in winter.
"Is it fun?" shouted Laddie, from where he stood with Rose at the top of the hill—only almost no one would have called such a slight grade a "hill."
"Lots of fun!" answered Russ.
Down to the bottom of the hill he rode, and then he walked up.