OCTOBER 22: Jack Frost’s Evening
Reading edition
“Jack Frost, and the Frost Brothers,” said daddy, “were off for a good time. ‘We’ll have the most wonderful party,’ said Jack Frost.
“‘What will we do?’ asked the Frost Brothers. They were always ready to do anything Jack suggested, but they never thought of the things to do first.
“‘We’ll celebrate,’ said Jack Frost.
“‘What will we celebrate for?’
“‘Because the wind has gone to sleep and we can do our work in peace. Oh, such work as we’ll do!’
“‘First you say we’ll have a celebration, and then you say we’ll work. Whatever do you mean, Jack Frost?’
“‘I mean,’ he said cheerily, ‘that we’ll have both a celebration and that we’ll do wonderful work too. For work and play are all the same to me. I feel like singing a song about it.’ And off he started singing, dancing around as he sang these words:
I’m so happy, I’m so gay, I like to work, I like to play. Whichever it is I do not mind, So long as the wind is still and kind.
“They put many of the flowers to sleep for the winter. Then the Frost Brothers helped Jack Frost make his wonderful pictures and this was what they called the celebration. They worked all night, and when morning came, people looked out and saw their windows covered with frost. ‘Jack Frost must have been around last night,’ they said.”