Then he took off his old silk hat, handed it to the little girl, and asked her to return it to the fencepost. She nodded and just like that he was off over the hills of snow towards the forest. But at the top of the last hill, he turned around and waved goodbye to his new friends.
The group of children waved goodbye back and began to make their way back through town and to the particularly snowy field with the fencepost. It was quite easy to make their way back because Frosty had left an obvious trail in the snow—like the trail that a snowball leaves as it is being rolled up. They reached the particularly snowy field at the edge of town in no time and found the fencepost that was home to the old silk hat.