"The phonograph would freeze inside a snow man," said Laddie.

"No, it wouldn't. If it did I could build a little fire and melt it,"
Russ went on. "Maybe I'll do it, too; that is, if I can find a
phonograph."

"But if you built a fire to thaw out the phonograph it would melt the
snow man," said Rose.

Russ seemed to be puzzled by this.

"Well, I'd do it somehow," he declared. "I'd just build a little fire,
and that wouldn't melt the snow man very much."

Back into the car came trooping some of the men who had gone out to see
the switch and rails clogged with the snow.

"Are we able to go on?" asked Grandpa Ford of one of these men.

"I think so," was the answer. "The snow has been shoveled away from the
switch, and the engineer is going to try again. But it is a bad storm,
and I doubt if we get through to-night."

"Won't we get home to your place, Grandpa?" asked Laddie.

"It's hard to tell," answered the old gentleman. "But, if worst comes to
worst, we can stay on the train all night. We can sleep here and eat
here, but perhaps we can get almost to Tarrington, and drive in a big
sled the rest of the way."