Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HE NICKNACK ON THE ICE Janet Martin did not know what to do. In fact, a girl much older than Ted’s sister would have been puzzled to know how to stop the little boy on his runaway sled front going across the railroad tracks. Of course he might get across before the train came, but there was danger. Oh, dear! cried Jan. Those big boys were mean to bunk into Ted, and push him over the second hill I She was tired now, and running down a slippery hill is not easy. So Jan stood still. Many of the other coasters did not know that Ted was in danger. They saw the larger boys coasting down the second hill, and perhaps they thought Teddy knew what he was about as long as his sled was going so straight down the same slope. For Ted was steering very straight. With. his feet dangling over the back of his sled he guided it down the hill, out of the way of other boys, some of whom he passed, for his sled was a fast one. Teddy was frightened. But he was a brave little fellow, and some time before he had learned to steer a sled with his feet, so he was not as afraid as he might otherwise have been. Oh, what will happen to him? wailed Janet, and tears came into her eyes. As soon as she had shed them she was sorry, for it is not very comfortable to cry wet, watery, salty tears in freezing weather. What is the matter, Curlytop? asked a bigger girl of Jan. This girl had been giving her little brother and sister a ride on her sled. My brother is sliding down the second hill, and there’s a train coming, sobbed Jan. He 11 be hurt! We never go on that hill! The big girl looked down at Ted. He was quite far away now, but he could easily be seen. Maybe hell stop in time, said the big girl. Oh, look! she cried suddenly. He’s steered into a snow bank a…