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Rh and the street cars. Those boys and girls who had sharp enough eyes to see him, discovered Uncle Sam behind the snow plows. The city took great pains and spent a great deal of money leveling your street and paving it, and the town Government believes in keeping a road open and in good condition once it is made. Following the city snow ploughs came teams and squads of men with snow shovels to cart off the snow turned up at the side of the road and dump it into the river. In a few hours the blocked roads were open to traffic again.

Boys who knew their duty to the street cleaning department of their town brought out their snow shovels and scrapers and went to work cleaning the sidewalks. These needed to be thoroughly cleaned because a little snow, left to melt and freeze, on a paved walk, is more dangerous than packed snow.

There was one boy, though, who thought that it was too cold to finish his sidewalk. He decided to clear only a path in the middle and let the rest of it go until the next day, hoping that it would be warmer. A pedestrian fell on the ice that formed on this boy's sidewalk and broke his leg. The town had to send an ambulance to carry him to a hospital, and pay a surgeon and send a nurse to take care of him there until he was well.