122 JANUARY 



" I wish that you would go some other way. 



" I do not like to hear your trickle, trickle." 



"But I wish," said the water, "that you 

 would give me more room. I I - 



His voice got thinner and thinner. 



Jack Frost was making the Ice thicker and 

 thicker all the time. 



One day the skaters came. 



They all said : 



" What lovely Ice ! " 



And the Ice grew more vain. 



In the evening the snowflakes came. 



They said to themselves : 



" How we shall be admired in the morning ! " 



In the morning the Ice was very angry. 



For the snowflakes covered him up. 



quarrel angrily poured 



" Who sent you ? " the Ice asked the snow- 

 flakes. 



"Nobody," answered they. 



" The clouds were too heavy to carry us. 



" So some of us came down. 



" You should be glad to see us. 



" The wind and the skies all love us." 



