1 Then he caught Mattie's hand and drew her after him toward the sled.
2 Ethan dragged the sled with one hand and passed the other through Mattie's arm.
3 I guess this sled must be Ned Hale's.
4 He drew the sled up to the Varnum gate and rested it against the fence.
5 He pulled the sled out, blinking like a night-bird as he passed from the shade of the spruces into the transparent dusk of the open.
6 He took his seat on the sled and Mattie instantly placed herself in front of him.
7 He stretched out his legs, drove his heels into the road to keep the sled from slipping forward, and bent her head back between his hands.
8 She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him.
9 Once or twice the sled swerved a little under them.
10 The sled swerved in response, but he righted it again, kept it straight, and drove down on the black projecting mass.
11 Then the sled came out on the surface of Lake Minniemashie.
12 Then she threw off the robe, climbed out of the sled, raced after it with Harry Haydock.
13 As they drew near the end of the village the cries of children reached them, and they saw a knot of boys, with sleds behind them, scattering across the open space before the church.