[Illustration: Sunny Boy calmly stuck pieces of coal down the white
front of the snow man.]
"I said I'd do it!" shouted Harry, jumping for the snow man and landing
half way up his back.
He meant to clap the hat on the snow man's head and jump back. But,
before he could do this, the other four boys tumbled on top of him and
the snow man. Over went the whole statue, and the two huge balls of
snow fell squarely on Sunny Boy, just as Daddy and Grandpa Horton, who
had come home from the office early, stepped out on the back porch.
Sunny Boy was too surprised to be frightened, and before he had time to
wonder what had struck him, Daddy had him out and was brushing the snow
out of his ears and eyes.
"Are you hurt, Sunny Boy?" asked Harry. "I didn't mean to knock the
snow man over, honestly I didn't."
"There's snow down my neck," said Sunny Boy, wriggling. "But nothing
hurt me. Only the snow man is all gone."
There he lay, that beautiful snow man, in two pieces, several pieces in
fact, for the balls had broken apart when they fell.
"Never mind," said Daddy Horton cheerfully. "You can easily build
another snow man. And the boys will help you, perhaps tomorrow."
"To-morrow is New Year's," announced Oliver Dunlap. "I have to go to
see my grandma. But I can help build a snow man the day after that."
The other boys promised to help build another snow man whenever Sunny
Boy asked them to, and then, as they were going into the house, Mrs.
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