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"! It's stopped snowing!" exclaimed Ned as he looked out of the little window on the second floor of the cabin the next morning. "Maybe we can get home for Thanksgiving!"

"I hope so," Bart answered. "The folks will be worried. Wonder if Jim is waiting for us?"

"Not much! Jim's too fond of his comfort to come out in such weather," said Frank.

The boys found the widow had breakfast ready for them. She told them their best plan would be to go to Kirkville, which could be reached by the road leading from the cabin. From that village it was seven miles to Darewell.

"It's going to be a long pull," remarked Ned. "But I guess we can make it."

"Let's go out and see how the snow is," suggested Bart.

They found though it was quite deep it was dry and soft so that tramping through it, and pulling the sled, would not be so great an exertion as it otherwise would have been.