"Oh, if only I could
have kept it from melting!"
CHAPTER XVI
A GRAND SLEIGH RIDE
For a long while all of the Bobbsey children had been begging their
parents for a sleigh ride into the country.
"The winter will be gone soon, papa," said Nan. "Won't you take us
before the snow is all gone?"
"You may as well take them, Richard," said Mrs. Bobbsey.
"Well, if I do, Mary, you must go along," answered Mr. Bobbsey, and so
it was arranged that they should take the ride on the following
Saturday, weather permitting.
You may well suppose that all of the twins were very anxious about the
weather after that, for Mr. Bobbsey said he would not go if it rained or
if it snowed very hard.
"What does it say in the newspapers?" asked Freddie. "They always know
what the weather is going to be."
"Not so far ahead as that," answered his brother.
But Friday evening the paper said cold and clear, and sure enough, on
Saturday morning it was as nice as one would wish. From behind masses of
thin clouds the sun peeped shyly, lighting up the snow until it shone
like huge beds of diamonds.
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