in that most undignified position.

Bob's accident turned the whole affair into a most ludicrous scene.
Tom Cameron laughed so hard that he scarcely had the strength to help
the girls out of the snowdrift. As for Isadore, he had to scramble
out by himself--and the soft snow had got down his neck, and he had
lost his hat, his ears were full of snow, and altogether he was in
what Madge Steele called "a state of mind."

"Huh!" Izzy growled, "you all can laugh. Wait! I'll get square with
you girls, now, you better believe that."

And he actually started off for the camp in a most abused state. The
others could not help their laughter--the more so that what seemed
for a few seconds to promise disaster had turned out to be nothing
but a most amusing catastrophe.

This ended the coasting for this particular evening, however. Jennie
Stone was pried out of the snowdrift last of all, and they all went
to the bottom of the hill where Bob Steele sat with his back against
a tree trunk, waiting, as he said, for the "world to stop turning
around so fast." His swift descent had made him dizzy.

They all ran back to Snow Camp, catching up with Isadore before he
got there with his grouch, and Tom and Bob fell upon the grouch and
dumped it into another snowbank--boy and all--and managed in the
scuffle to bring Busy Izzy into a better state of mind.

"Just the same," he declared, "I'll get square with those girls for
laughing at me--you see if I don't!"