"Whoa! There's snow everywhere! I've got to get outside!" Julia jumped towards the window just after she woke up.
 
   "Wake up, Tina, wake up!" Julia ran into her older sister's bedroom.
   "It's too early to get up. It's Christmas break, Julia!" Tina didn't even open her eyes.
   "Tina, there's snow!" Julia cried. Tina's eyes flew open. "Snow!?" she exclaimed.
   "SNOW!" Julia shook Tina's shoulders.
   "Oh, my!" Tina launched herself out of the bed.

   "I'm going to get outside before you do!" Julia rushed down the stairs as fast as she dared.
   "Oh, no you aren't!" Tina raced down the hall to the mud room.

   In the end, Tina and Julia reached the snow at the same time. They threw themselves in to the snow backwards, and started making snow angels.
   "Mine's bigger!" Tina laughed.
   "Mine's neater!" Julia countered.

   Ten minutes later, the window for the girls' brother's bedroom opened. "Bombs away!"  Teddy started chucking snowballs made from the snow on the ledge outside his window.
   "Run, Tina!" Julia headed for her treehouse.
   "Safe at last," Tina said when she climbed into the treehouse out back.

THE END

Genevieve~Robin Hood's cousin

   “David?” Genevieve asked her older brother as she reached for the can of worms. The two were fishing at the river by their house.

   “Yes, Genn?” David questioned in reply.

   “Why did Father have to go to Lincoln? It’s not fair that he’s away so long!” Genevieve asked David.

   “I don’t know, Genn. I suppose it’s his merchant business. He’s not doing to well with it, and his mill wheel broke last month. There’s no income for either of his jobs, and there is not any work here in Nottingham. So he had to go to Lincoln,” David tried to answer Genevieve’s question, but he wasn’t having much luck.

   “Isn’t there somewhere closer than Lincoln?” Genevieve asked.

   “Not that has enough work for him,” David replied.

   “Oh. That isn’t good,” Genevieve said.

   “Nay, ‘tisn’t!” David agreed.

   “Genevieve!” came a girl’s voice from across the river when Genevieve and David when they were preparing to leave.

   “Elizabeth! You are here! We just were leaving, though,” Genevieve called to her best friend.

   “Oh, can you stay?” Elizabeth asked.

   “Nay, we have caught quite a large amount of fish and our baskets are full. We must get home to clean them,” David explained.

   “Oh, Genevieve, meet me at the hollow oak!” Elizabeth called after the siblings when they were going home.

   “When?” Genevieve asked.

   “Tonight, after supper!” Elizabeth replied.

   “I can’t come after supper! Jenessa needs my help,” Genevieve said.

   “Oh,” Elizabeth sighed. “I see.”

   “Goodbye!” Genevieve called.

   “Farewell!” Elizabeth said.