"Miss May is going to send you home earlier than usual to-day," she
told them when the books were closed and the boys and girls were
sitting "at attention," as she liked to have them. "She thinks the
storm is getting worse, and, of course, the longer you stay the more
snow you will have to plough through. I will help you put on your
wraps, and then I want you to hurry home. Don't stop to play in the
snow and don't build snow men or throw snowballs. Go straight home,
because your mothers may begin to worry about you."

They went into the cloakroom to get their wraps, and Miss Davis had to
turn on the light for them because it was so dark. The window was high
in the wall, and the wind had blown so much snow against it that the
room was "like five o'clock at night," Carleton Marsh said.

"Now remember, don't play, but hurry home," said Miss Davis, when the
last legging was buttoned and all the mittens were matched. Perry
Phelps lost one of his mittens regularly every day and Miss Davis
always had to find it for him. "Don't stop to play in the snow till
you have been home and had your lunch. You'll have the whole afternoon
to play in."

It was much colder than it had been in the morning. Sunny Boy knew
that as soon as he went out on the steps. But he did not know how cold
it was till he and the other children turned the first corner. Then
the wind struck them and Dorothy Peters cried that she couldn't breathe!

"Turn your back to it," Sunny Boy advised her, pulling his fur cap down
over his ears.

But the wind seemed to blow in several directions at once. It swooped