The broom will answer for a sled!"

They had never a sled, but dragged in its room,

Just as gayly, behind them, the worn kitchen-

broom;

John, Sammy, and Tom, and their sweet lit-

tle sister,

With her cheeks cherry-red, where the wind

had kissed her.

"You can watch, sis, that's enough,"

That was what her brother's said;