"A lot of good that'll do you," returned Tom Cameron. "And why
shouldn't they laugh? Do you suppose that the sight of you on your
head in a snowbank with your legs waving in the wind was something to
make them _weep_? Huh!"

But when they got inside the big hall, where the two fires burned,
Izzy forgot his grouch. There was a basket of popcorn and several
"poppers" and the crowd of young folk were soon shelling corn and
popping it, turning the fluffy, snow-white kernels into big bowls,
over which thick cream was poured, and, as Jennie declared, "they ate
till they couldn't eat another crumb!"

"Isn't it just grand?" cried Belle Tingley, when the girls had
retired to the big room in which Ruth Fielding had slept alone the
night before. "I never did know you could have so much fun in the
woods in the dead of winter. Helen! your father is just the dearest
man to bring us up here! We'll none of us forget this vacation."

But in the morning there were new things to go and learn. The
resources of Snow Camp seemed unending. As soon as breakfast was over
there was Long Jerry ready with snowshoes for all. Tom and Helen, as
well as Bob Steele, were somewhat familiar with these implements. And
Ruth had had one unforgettable experience with them.

But at first there were a good many tumbles, and none of the party
went far from the big lodge on this occasion. They came into the mid-day
dinner pretty well tired, but oh, how hungry!

"I declare, eating never seemed so good before," Bob Steele