Bert's side managed to get into the fort, driving the others out.

"Oh, we'll beat you to-morrow!" taunted Danny, when the battle was
over.

The next morning, when the children assembled at school, they saw a
strange sight. On the front steps of the building was a great
snowball, so large that it almost hid the door from sight. And working
at it, trying to cut it away so that the entrance could be used, was
the janitor. He was having hard work it seemed.

"Who did it?"

"Who put it there?"

"Say, it's frozen fast, too!"

"Somebody will get into trouble about this."

These were only a few of the things said when the children saw the big
snowball on the school steps.

"It's frozen fast all right enough," said the janitor, grimly.
"Whoever put it there poured water over it, and it's frozen so fast
that I'll have to chop it away piece by piece. All day it will take
me, too, and me with all the paths to clean!"

When the classes were assembled for the morning exercises Mr. Tetlow,
the school principal, stepped to the edge of the platform, and said: