comfortable, and put on all the wood in the fire-basket till the
fireplace was ablaze with flames.

And all this loving care and attention agreed with both Sunny Boy and
Grandpa Horton, for neither one of them took the tiniest bit of cold
and they were all right again the next day. Sunny Boy said he knew it
was the peppermint drops, and Harriet thought so, too.




CHAPTER III

WHO WAS THE BIG BOY?

Although Sunny Boy and Grandpa were quite well the next morning, Daddy
Horton said he thought they had better stay in the house till after
lunch.

"It is much colder to-day. The thermometer dropped several degrees
last night," Daddy explained. "I think if you wait a few hours you'll
find it pleasanter out."

So Sunny Boy and Grandpa took this good advice and stayed in by the
living-room fire. They again told Grandma and Mother Horton about the
ice cracking, and Harriet, who was cleaning the dining-room, could not
get along very fast with her dusting because she was always coming to
the door to listen.

"That must have been Judge Layton, Father," said Mrs. Horton, when