IT was a very hard frost, the coldest weather known for years people said, and the old folks were glad to remain by the fire; but all the young people were so rejoiced at the sliding and skating that they spent all day on the ice, only coming in for a hurried lunch and going out again till dark. One afternoon the sun shone so brightly that positively grandmamma and Aunt Fanny were induced to come and see the skaters, and Aunt Fanny was pushed over the pond by her nephews, who had got ready a chair with rollers on it, on purpose to give the ladies a ride; grandmamma would not venture in the chair, although assured it was very delightful to go smoothly and quickly from one end of the pond to the other, and that there was no danger of falling through the thick ice.
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