"What's up?" asked Beth. "You mean, what's ," said Eddie, her eyes beginning to glower. "Or, what's to be down. going to be down, that's what." She let sisters over a hedge just beyond the school property. "We're going to wait here," she said, "and when the Hatfords come by, we're going to leap on Jake--all three of us. Before Wally and Josh can even think of stopping us, we are going to stuff Jake so full of snow he'll think he's a snowman. Beth, you push snow down his collar; Caroline, you rub snow in his face; and I'm going to cram a snowball right in his mouth. As soon as you're done, run like crazy and I'll meet you at home." When Eddie got even, she didn't fool around."