Out in the Williams’ front yard, Veve had started to roll a huge snowball. She hadn’t known it was the5 regular time for the Brownie meeting to break up, and thought the girls meant to play with her. 5 “Come and help me push!” she shouted. “I want to make this snowball as big as a mountain!” Belinda Matthews and Rosemary Fritche only smiled at her as they ambled down the walk arm-in-arm. Next, Eileen Webber and Jane Tuttle came out of the house, and they barely noticed Veve or her snowball. Connie, who stood in the doorway saying goodbye to Sunny and Miss Gordon, saw that Veve was very disappointed. The little girl looked as if she might cry. Miss Gordon noticed it too. “What wonderful snow for rolling!” the Brownie Scout leader remarked. “Let’s help Veve!” proposed Connie. Usually known as “sober face,” she was now very gay as she dived into the cloak closet for her snowsuit and galoshes. “Can you stay awhile and play, Sunny?” “I’ll call my mother,” Sunny offered. Reached by telephone, Mrs. Davidson said that her daughter might remain until five o’clock. Sunny struggled into her zippered white woolen snowsuit and the two girls went outdoors together. Veve tried not to show how glad she was to see6 them. “Let’s push this snowball down the driveway,” she urged. 6 The big ball went “crunch, crunch,” as the three girls rolled it over and over. From the driveway it picked up bits of gravel and rock. “Isn’t it large enough now for a snowman?” asked Sunny as she became breathless from pushing. Veve walked around the huge ball to see how large it had grown. “Yes, it will do,” she decided. “This ball is for the snowman’s feet. We will make the next one larger. That will be for his stomach.” The three girls stood the snowball on its flat end in the front yard. Then they started another which grew and grew as it rolled over the ground. “Veve,” Connie asked suddenly, “why don’t you join our Brownie troop?” In the act of lifting up a hard-packed snowball, Veve nearly let it tumble through her
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