"No, sir, it's ice."
"Tell you what, boys, this is nice."
"We're going to stick icicles all around, and make it real pretty, by-and-by," said Fred.
"Then you come over and get my big square barn lantern, and see how that'll make it look after dark."
The Squire was a good friend of boys and fun, after all, and both he and the Doctor came out that evening to see the white walls of the Esquimaux hut, and the liberal allowance of icicles the boys had stuck up, glitter and shine and wink in the light of the great lantern.
THE NEW YEAR.