And that is quite a good time, as you will see if you read all
about it in this book.


I. THE TWINS GO COASTING

THE TWINS GO COASTING

I.

One spring morning, very early, while the moon still shone and
every one else in the village was asleep, Menie and Monnie crept
out of the dark entrance of their little stone house by the sea.

The entrance to their little stone house was long and low like a
tunnel. The Twins were short and fat. But even if they were short
they could not stand up straight in the tunnel.

So they crawled out on all fours. Nip and Tup came with them. Nip
and Tup were on all fours, too, but they had run that way all
their lives, so they could go much faster than the twins. They
got out first.

Then they ran round in circles in the snow and barked at the
moon. When Menie and Monnie came out of the hole, Tup jumped up
to lick Monnie's face. He bumped her so hard that she fell right
into the snowbank by the entrance.

Monnie didn't mind a bit. She just put her two fat arms around