Jolly was too frightened to laugh when he saw Johnnie Green’s second snowball strike the moon-faced stranger in the . You see, the snowball hit one of the stranger’s arms. And to Jolly’s , the arm at once dropped off and dashed upon the ground, breaking into a dozen pieces.  
That alone was enough to startle Jolly Robin. But the moon-faced man paid not the slightest attention to the accident. There was something ghostly in the way he stood there, all in white, never moving, never once saying a word.54
 
But Johnnie Green did not seem frightened at all. He set up a great shouting and began to let fly his snowballs as fast as he could throw them.
 
They did not all find the mark. But the very last one struck the silent stranger squarely upon his left ear. And to Jolly Robin’s horror, his head toppled off and fell at his feet.
 
Jolly Robin expected the man in white to turn and chase Johnnie Green then—or at least to his stick at Johnnie. But nothing of the sort happened. And Jolly did not wait for anything more. He felt that he had seen quite enough. So he flew away to the shelter of the woods, to find somebody to whom he could talk and tell of the strange thing that had happened in the orchard.
 
Over in the woods Jolly was lucky enough to meet Jimmy Rabbit, who was always very friendly toward him. And as soon as he had inquired about Jimmy Rabbit’s health (they had not seen each other sin............