LETTER XVIII 



Town and Country "Winter and Rough Weather" Floods 

 Blizzards Thunderstorms Compensation Winter Aconites 

 in Snow Owls Coke. 



2glh January, 1895. 



DEAR MARCO --If "winter and rough 

 weather" are not the "only enemies" that 

 the countryman has to put up with they 

 are certainly the most important. A town- 

 dweller is not brought so continually face to 

 face with the wild forces of Nature, or ex- 

 periences such a succession of object lessons 

 on the weakness of man when opposed to the 

 baffling effects of those forces, as a country- 

 man. It is one thing to sit over a cup of 

 coffee and a slice of toast in the breakfast 

 room of your snug town house and read 



