A SNOW-&OBM. 107 



We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth ; 

 it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is 

 the face of death ; yet snow is but the mask of the 

 life-giving rain ; it, too, is the friend of man the 

 tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertiliz- 

 ing snow. 



