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He had to sit down and rest a ht and spoke to thely He took an apple away froave it to the little steers When they had eaten it, he cracked his whip and cheerfully shouted:

“Giddap!”

Pierre and Louis pushed the sled with all their ht The sled started Alht hunched their backs and pulled Up they went out of the ditch, and up went the sled with a lurch

That was one trouble Alot out of, all by himself

The road in the woods was fairly well broken now, and this tis on the sled So he rode ho behind him

Down the long road he saw Father co, and he said to hio by

Star and Bright walked briskly and the sled was sliding easily down the white road Almanzo’s whip cracked loudly in the frosty air Nearer and nearer ca sled

Now of course the big oxen should have ht remembered that they had turned out before Or perhaps they knew they er oxen Nobody expected them to turn out of the road, but suddenly they did One sled-runner dropped into soft snow And over went the sled and the load and the boys, topsy-turvy, pell-mell

Alh the air and headfirst into snow

He ed and scras were scattered and up-ended in the drifts There was a pile of red-brown legs and sides deep in the snow Father’s big oxen were going calmly by

Pierre and Louis rose out of the snoearing in French Father stopped his oxen and got off his sled

“Well, well, well, son,” he said “Seeain”

Alht lay on Star; their legs and the chain and the tongue were all s lay still, too sensible to try and et them on their feet They were not hurt

Father helped set Almanzo’s sled on its runners With his sled-stakes for skids, and Alain Then he stood back and said nothing while Aled thee of the ditch and safely into the road

“That’s the way, son!” Father said “Down again, up again!”