20 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



they occasionally found, grew at the bot- 

 tom of the sea, and when the tree reached 

 nearly to the surface of the water, its top 

 became caught and frozen in the thick 

 ice, and in the summer, when the ice 

 broke up, the tree was pulled up by the 

 roots and floated to the nearest shore. 



Now, as little Boreas's father has 

 neither wood nor mortar to use on the 

 stones, he is rather at a loss, you think, 

 for building material. But, no. He 

 takes the very last thing you would think 

 of choosing to make a house from in a 

 cold winter. That is, he builds his win- 

 ter home of snow. 



" But won't the snow melt and the 

 house tumble in?" you will ask. Of 

 course it will, if you get it warmer than 

 just the coldness at which water freezes ; 

 but during the greater part of the year it 



