tc sle bending and ma dancer in the fiddle was singing:

o you coming out tonig you coming out tonig you coming out tonig you coming out tonigo dance by t of the moon?”

ttle circles and t round and round, and ts ss stamped, and partners boed -and met and bowed again.

in tcirring ttle. sirred in time to times grandma took a spoonful of syrup from ttle and poured it on some of the snow in a saucer.

laura c;t; now. he called:

“doe see, ladies, doe see doe, come down oe!

laura could not keep still. uncle george looked at her and laughed.

t tle dance cciful, too; a dark blue calico umn-colored leaves scattered over it. he wooden spoon was in her hand.

“i cant leave t; she said.

but pa began to play “traveler,“ and everybody began to clap in time to to teps by tily as any of t drohe music of pas fiddle.

suddenly uncle george did a pigeon ossed o somebody. s ed. grandma was jigging.

laura clapped ime to t s as ts.

everybody ed. uncle george kept on) jiggling and grandma kept on facing oo. t stop. uncle george began to breat off winkled.

“you cant beat ; somebody sed.

uncle george jigged faster. as heir

easing george. george did not care, but o laugh. he was jigging.

pas blue eyes crings. laura jumped up and down and squealed and clapped her hands.

grandma kept on jigging. on jigging, but s did not t first. grandmas on clickety-clacking gaily.

a drop of s dripped off georges forehead and shone on his cheek.

all at once ;im beat!“ opped jigging.

everybody made a terrific noise, sing and yelling and stamping, -c a little minute more, topped. s like pas woo, and wiping his forehead on his sleeve.

suddenly grandma stopped laugued and ran as fast as so tcopped playing. all talking at once and all teasing george, but everybody ill for or a minute, w.

to tche big room, and said:

“the syrup is waxing. come and help yourselves.”

to talk and laugh again.

to tces, and outdoors to fill tes che cold air came in.

outdoors tars y in th was like smoke.

ses. t back into tchen.

grandma stood by ttle and syrup on eace of sno cooled into soft candy, and as fast as it cooled te it.

t all ted, for maple sugar never anybody. ty of syrup in ttle, and plenty of snodoors. as soon as te one plateful, tes .

en t maple candy until t no more of it, table loaded -rising bread, too, and cold pickles boiled pork, and pickles. “oo, e till to dance again. but grandma ctle. many times sook a little of it out into a saucer, and stirred it round and round. to ttle.

the dancing.

at last, as grandma stirred, t; saucer tued into little grains like sand, and grandma called:

“quick, girls! its graining!

aunt ruby and aunt docia and ma left t out pans, pans and little pans, and as fast as grandma filled t out more. t to cool into maple sugar.

t;noty-pans for the children.”

tty-pan, or at least a broken cup or a saucer, for every little girl and boy. tc t be enougo be unselfise.

t enougo go round. t scrapings of ttle exactly filled t patty-pan. nobody out.

t on and on. laura and tood around and c docty and t laura kneired of it.

all tiful skirts ss stamping, and t on singing gaily.

t of grandmas bed. it s on t. s docia and aunt ruby in their bed.

soon everybody ting up. t, and t to the door.

ossed to traucked in tood calling, “good-by! good-by!“ as to the big oods, going home.

trotting s of muddy snoprints, and every footprint o the mud.

“before nig; pa said, “ of the sugar snow.”