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CHAPTER XIII
IN A HARD BLOW
"Are you girls warm enough?" asked Bert Bobbsey, as he and his cousin Harry started toward the frozen lake one afternoon, the day before they were all to start for Snow Lodge.
"If we aren't we will never be," answered Dorothy Minturn, who was Nan's "seashore cousin" as she called the visitor. "I've got on so many things that it would be easier to roll along instead of walking," went on Dorothy with a laugh.
"Well, it's a good thing to be warm, for it will be cold on the ice-boat; won't it, Bert?" asked Harry.
"That's what it will. There's a good wind blowing, too. It's stronger than I thought it was," and Bert bent to the blast as he walked along with the others.
"Will there be any danger?" asked Doro-
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