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His open mouth was full of snow He spit it out, and ed, scrambled up

Everything was still The road was eone Pierre and Louis were co in French, but Almanzo paid no attention to him Pierre sputtered and wiped the snow from his face, and said:

“Sacre bleu! I think you say you drive your calves They not run away, eh?”

Far down the road, almost buried in the deep drifts by the mound of snow over the stone fence, Almanzo saw the calves’ red backs

“They did not run away,” he said to Pierre “They only ran There they be”

He went down to look at them Their heads and their backs were above the snow The yoke was crooked and their necks were askew in the bows Their noses were together and their eyes were large and wondering They see each other, “What happened?”

Pierre and Louis helped dig the snoay frohtened the yoke and the chain Then he stood in front of them and said, “Giddap!” while Pierre and Louis pushed them from behind The calves climbed into the road, and Ally Al, and everything he told them to do, they did Pierre and Louis walked behind They would not ride

Alave the it up; he put the whip on its nail, and he wiped the chain and the lynch-pin and put them where Father had left them Then he told Pierre and Louis that they could sit behind him, and they slid downhill on the sled till chore-time

That night Father asked him:

“You have some trouble this afternoon, son?”

“No,” Alht to drive when I ride”

So he did that, in the barnyard

Chapter 10

The Turn of the Year

The days were growing longer, but the cold was more intense Father said: