Spinning-Wheel Stories

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Grandma's Story


"It is too bad to have our jolly vacation spoiled by this provoking
storm. Didn't mind it yesterday, because we could eat all the time; but
here we are cooped up for a week, perhaps, and I'd like to know what we
are to do," growled Geoff, as he stood at the window looking gloomily at
the bleak scene without. It certainly was discouraging; for the north
wind howled, the air was dark with falling snow, and drifts were rising
over fences, roads, and fields, as if to barricade the Christmas party
in the great country house.

"We can bear it pleasantly, since it can't be helped," said gentle
sister Mary, with a kind hand on his shoulder, and a face full of
sympathy for his disappointment. "I'm sorry for the coasting, skating,
and sleighing frolics we have lost; but if we must be shut up, I'm sure
we couldn't have a pleasanter prison or a kinder jailer. Don't let
grandma hear us complain, for she has made great exertions to have our
visit a merry one, and it will trouble her if we are not gay and
contented."

"That's easy for a parcel of girls, who only want to mull over the fire,
and chatter, and drink tea; but it's rough on us fellows, who come for
the outside fun. House is well enough; but when you've seen it once,
there's an end. Eating is jolly, but you can't stuff forever. We might
dig, or snowball, if it didn't blow a gale. Never saw such a beast of a
storm!"--and Geoff flattened his nose against the window-pane and
scowled at the elements.