"I'll give you the proper version:
"Beautiful snow! If it chokes up this train,
It certainly will give me a pain!"
"Goodness me, Bobby!" retorted her cousin, Libbie, "your versifying
certainly gives me a pain."
CHAPTER XI
STALLED, AND WITHOUT A DOCTOR
The rapidity with which the storm had increased and the drifts had filled
the cuts through which the rails were laid was something that none of the
party bound for Mountain Camp had experienced. Unless Uncle Dick be
excepted. As Betty said, Mr. Richard Gordon had been almost everywhere and
had endured the most surprising experiences. That was something that
helped to make him such a splendid guardian.
"Yes," he agreed, when Betty dragged him down the car aisle to the two
sections which he had wisely abandoned entirely to his young charges, "we
had considerable snow up there in the part of Canada where I have been
this fall. Before I came down for the Christmas holidays there was about
four feet of snow on the level in the woods and certain sections of the
railroad up there had been entirely abandoned for the winter.
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