“Put in sticks for arms,” she called. “Make eyes, and mouth, and nose.”
My! what a jolly time the Ink-Bottle Babies had!
They made a whole row of snow-men, and they worked so late that the stars came out and began to twinkle.
Then twenty-three of the Babies said, “We are cold and hungry. We are going into the house.”
Molly and Polly said, “Run on; we are not ready to go in yet.”
So the twenty-three Babies ran in and found Mamma making gingersnaps in the kitchen.
Then Molly said, “Hark! what is that?”
Then Polly said “Hark! I hear something.”
Just at that minute a tiny sleigh drew up at the door. It was the same sleigh that had been there before.
In the sleigh sat the two little dwarfs. They sat very still. They had hidden their sleigh bells.