"Mine is bigger! I'm a boy!" said Menie.
Koko measured their noses with his finger.
"They are just exactly alike," he said.
Monnie turned hers up at Menie and said, "What did I tell you?"
Menie never said another word about noses. He just changed the
subject. He said, "Let's all slide down at once."
Koko and Menie sat down on the sled. Monnie sat on Menie. Then
they gave a few hitches to the sled and off they went.
Whiz! How they flew!
The pups came running after them. In some places where it was
very slippery the pups coasted, too! But they did not mean to.
They did not like it. The sled was almost at the end of the slide
when it struck a piece of ice. It flew around sideways and
spilled all the children in the snow.
Just then Nip and Tup came sliding along behind them. They
couldn't stop, so there they all were in a heap together, with
the dogs on top!
Menie rolled over and sat up in the snow. He was holding on to
the end of his nose. "Iyi, iyi!" he howled, "I bumped my nose on
a piece of ice!"
Monnie sat up in the snow, too. She pointed her fur mitten at
Menie's nose and laughed. "Don't you know you haven't much nose?"
she said. "You ought to be more careful of it!"
Koko kicked his feet in the air and laughed at Menie, and the
little dogs barked. Menie thought he'd better laugh, too. He had
just let go of his nose to begin when all of a sudden the little
dogs stopped barking and stood very still!
Their hair stood up on their necks and they began to growl!
"Hark, the dogs see something," said Menie.
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