human
Now will you be good? crowed his brother, Ted.
gpt
See what you get for being so fresh! Tumbling over his game leg and pitching a wilted snowball at the Major's head. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
human
Oh, hush! grumbled Tommy.
gpt
You needn't say anything. He doesn't know which of the Tucker twins it was crowned him with that snowball, and you are just as much in his bad books as I am. Remember that.
human
Listen to him! cried Ted, at once feeling abused.
gpt
And Major Pater is near-sighted, too, although he scorns to wear glasses. You've got me into a mess, too, Tommy Tucker.
human
There! There! said Betty Gordon, soothingly.
gpt
Never mind. Uncle Dick will smooth him down. But I do think, boys, that you need not have got into trouble at all.
human
Huh! that's our natural state, observed Teddy.
gpt
Boys out of trouble are like fish out of water. So my dad says. And he ought to know, he grinned.
human
He has twins.
gpt
Your Uncle Dick is fine, Betty, he observed.
human
Think of his getting on the blind side of Major Pater so easy. But cracky! how that snow did squash all over him,
gpt
One of your instructors, too! exclaimed Louise.
human
For shame!
gpt
My! chuckled Bobby,
human
I am afraid Miss Prettyman is no more beloved than Major Pater is.
gpt
Never mind, you girls! interrupted Tommy, with renewed interest in the storm and trying to peer through the window.
human
It's a regular blizzard. When the porter opened the door of the vestibule for me to get that snow, I thought he wouldn't get it shut again.
gpt
Suppose we get stalled?
human
Well, suppose we do? returned Bob.
gpt
I tell you we are all right for food, for the dining car----
human
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Tommy put in.
gpt
The porter let me into a secret. The diner was dropped about thirty miles back. Broken flange of one wheel and no time, of course, to put on a new wheel.
human
Goodness! exclaimed Betty.
gpt
I begin to feel hungry already.
human
Of course, we'll pick up another diner?
gpt
We'll hope so!
human
If we get through to Tonawanda, yes, said Tommy Tucker.
gpt
That's what the porter told me. But we don't get there, if we are on schedule, until eight o'clock.
human
There! I knew I was perishing of hunger, exclaimed Betty.
gpt
It's half past four already,
human
Three and a half hours to dinner time? wailed Bobby.
gpt
Oh! That--is--tough!
human
That is, if we make the regular time, Bob said thoughtfully.
gpt
And right now, let me tell you, this train is just about crawling, and that's all. Humph! The soup sure will get cold in that dining car at Tonawanda, if it waits there to be attached to our train.
human
Oh! Oh! cried Bobby.
gpt
Don't let's think of it. I had no idea that snow could be so troublesome.
human
Beautiful snow! murmured Betty.
gpt
Say, Libbie. Recite that for us, will you? You know: the poetry about 'Beautiful Snow.' You or Timothy should remember it.
human
Beautiful snow! If it chokes up this train, It certainly will give me a pain!
gpt
Goodness me, Bobby! retorted her cousin, Libbie,