FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 39 



again decently covered with a veil of white. 

 The snow continued to fall throughout the 

 morning, not heavily, but steadily, and 

 toward noon, covering myself with a long 

 mackintosh, I sallied forth to get the benefit 

 of it at first hand. I took the mountain 

 road : on the left the ground fell away rather 

 gently to the broad intervale, while on the 

 right, beyond a narrow valley, at a few 

 hundred yards distance, the hillside rose 

 steeply to the height of several hundred feet, 

 here covered with dense wood, and there 

 by scattered trees and rocks, now and then 

 accented by a bold cliff ; the ground all 

 robed in white, and the trees, especially the 

 numerous evergreens, singly or in groups, 

 all heavily weighted with their downy gar 

 ments. 



&quot;Fast fell the fleecy shower.&quot; There 

 were as yet only two or three inches of new 

 fallen snow, and walking, though warm 

 work, was not very difficult, as it would 

 have been had the snow been deeper. Trav 

 elling on foot in heavy snow, though excit 

 ing and exhilarating, is hard enough for a 

 man ; for a woman, with skirts, it must be 

 something appalling. One of my neighbours 

 told me last night how in her girlhood she 

 had suddenly been seized one day with a 



