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WINTER 



work of her mightiest minions. Do not miss the soft 

 feathery fall that plumes the trees and that roofs 

 the sheds with Carrara marble; the howling bliz- 

 zard with its fine cutting blast that whirls into 

 | smoking crests ; the ice-storm that comes as slow,< 

 ^ soft rain to freeze as it falls, turning all the world to 

 crystal: these are some of the miracles of winter that 

 -> you must not fail to see. 



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You must see how close you had passed to and 

 ^ y fro all summer to the vireo's nest, hanging from the; 



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fork on a branch of some low bush or tree, so near o - 

 to the path that it almost brushed your hat. Yet you M 

 never saw it ! Go on and make a study of the empty 

 nests; see particularly how many of them were built 



