It had snowed all evening; the frosted windows prevented a preliminary survey of the silent night.

_Brr-rr!_ Nobody would take the dare.
Nobody but me.

Oh, how the creeps ran up and down my back! and oh! how I loved to distinguish myself! I let them bundle me up till I was nearly smothered.

I paused with my mittened hand on the latch.

I shivered, though I could have sat the night out with a Polar bear without another shawl.