Billy anxiously felt his nose with his fingers and found it all there and quite right.
"But I'll get you yet, Billy Bounce," howled Boreas, "and when I do I'll nip you hard."
"You're not so very fast or dangerous after all," said Billy laughing.
"Look out for him," whispered Fuzzy, "he has other tricks."
And sure enough, along raced Boreas, this time close to the ground, and before Billy knew it, he had caught him by the legs and was sliding him along the ice, right toward the cold water.
But Billy knew a trick worth two of that, and suddenly threw himself backwards.
"Plump—" he had fallen back, right on top of Boreas. "Ugh!" cried Boreas and lay still for a moment with the breath quite knocked out of him.
"Good for Billy," cried Fuzzy White. "You got him that time."
"So it seems," said Billy laughing.