Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 254
naughty Brier-Rose ! A SNOW-BATTLE. 235 A SNOW BATTLE.By Daniel C. Beard. In the January number of St. NICHOLAS lastwinter, I told you how to build snow-forts, and howto make shields and ammunition-sleds. I also sug-gested rules to govern snow-ball warfare. To givesome faint idea of the excitement… … and gone and a new year begun, but no snow hadfallen on the river bank or neighboring hills. Such was the condition of things one Januarymorning, in a Kentucky town, upon the banks ofthe Ohio River, where I and some sixty other boyswere gathered in a little, frame school-house. We had about made up…
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