CHAPTER XTI 



A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS WINTER 



"OU should hear the three great silences of/ 

 winter : the wide, sudden silence that falls 

 at twilight on the coming of the first winter" 

 ; frost ; the smothered hush that waits the breaking ' 

 ^ ~ "Sof a winter storm ; the crystal stillness, the speech 

 of the stars, that pervades earth and sky on a bril- 

 liant, stirless winter night. You should hear or 

 it feel ? them all. 



II 



So should you hear the great voices of the winter : 

 . the voice of the north wind ; the voice of a pine* 

 forest; the voice of the surf on a stormy shore. 

 There is no music that I know like the wild mighty * 

 'music of the winter winds in the winter woods. It*', 

 will often happen that you can pass through a bare^ 

 .stretch of naked hardwoods immediately into a grove j 

 of thick-limbed spruces or pines. Never miss suchr 

 an opportunity. Do not let the high winds of this< 

 winter blow on and away without your hearing them" 

 at least once as they sweep through the hard- < 

 woods on into the deep resounding pines. 



