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diamond dust had been lightly sprinkled on them, and glittering
crystal icicles hung from the branches.
At each end of the room, on the wall, hung a beautiful bear-skin
rug.
These rugs were for prizes, one for the girls and one for the boys.
And this was the game.
The girls were gathered at one end of the room and the boys at the
other, and one end was called the North Pole, and the other the
South Pole. Each player was given a small flag which they were to
plant on reaching the Pole.
This would have been an easy matter, but each traveller was obliged
to wear snowshoes. These were not the real thing, but smaller
affairs made of pasteboard. But when they were tied on, the wearer
felt clumsy indeed, and many of the girls declared they could not
walk in them at all. And in addition each one was blindfolded.
However, everybody made an attempt, and at a given signal the young
people started from their opposite ends of the room and endeavoured
to make progress toward the goal as they blindly stumbled along.
Patty concluded to move very slowly, thinking this the surest way to
make a successful trip. So she scuffled along among the other
laughing girls, now and then stumbling over a hillock, which was
really a hassock or a sofa cushion under the white floor covering.
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