Whenever there was the least bit of snow, enough to make the roads at all passable, we used to take the wheels off of her carriage and put on the runners. We had a couple of strings of silver bells for the horses and on a nice frosty day it made a pretty sight to see the sleigh and hear the jingle of the bells. Sometimes the snow wore through or was not quite smooth on the driveway, then August Mann and I would always pile on more snow and flatten out the bumps so that the runners would glide freely and easily. 1
