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off if you do not see a newspaper, or get a letter, 

 or send a dispatch. And I will leave you some 

 work to do or have done in the morning. Prison 

 ers are always digging out of prisons you may 

 dig out. Fun for all of you great fun ! &quot; 



How far the storm reaches no one knows at 

 this writing. It took from between 9 o clock 

 and 10 Sunday night until 8 o clock yesterday 

 morning for it to reach Lowell, which is not very 

 rapid traveling for such a coast gale as this. In the 

 evening, about 24 hours after it began, the snow 

 had apparently almost ceased falling here, and the 

 temperature was less exasperating, though the 

 winds still blew swiftly, heaping up the snow, 

 whistling and wailing around the eaves and down 

 the chimneys, and making life out of doors about 

 as undesirable as it ever is. On the hills this 

 must be a tremendous storm, like those the elders 

 tell of 50 and 60 years ago ; highways and byways 

 alike will be obliterated, and the cattle in some 

 barns have to go without fodder ; late in March 

 though it is, there will be neighbourhood breaking- 

 outs. Any one starting on a walk in a sparsely 

 settled mountain district yesterday would have 

 stood a right smart chance of never getting there 

 wherever he wanted to get. 



There were a good many March meetings to 

 be held yesterday, but the corners and borders of 



