"Here we go!" cried Dick, and away glided the boat. Back and forth across the pond it went, and Rose laughed, and so did Margy. She found she liked it very much.
"Could I have another ride?" asked Russ after a bit.
"I guess so," agreed Dick. "I'll take you and Laddie this time. The wind is stronger now, and we'll go faster—too fast for the smallest ones, maybe."
"I like to go fast!" exclaimed Russ. But he went even faster than he expected to.
As Dick had said, the wind was blowing very strong now, and it stretched the sail of the ice boat away out. Dick had all he could do to hold it while Russ and Laddie got on board.
"All ready?"
"All ready!" answered Russ.
The boat swung around and away it whizzed over the ice. Russ and Laddie clung to the sides of the box-like cabin, and Russ had fairly to shout to make himself heard above the whistling of the wind.
"This is fast!" he called in Laddie's ear.
"Yes, but I like it," said the smaller boy. "I'm going to make up a riddle about the ice boat but it goes so fast as soon as I think of anything in my head I forget it."