Sgoran Dubh: An Autumn Snowfall 



of the Spey the sun shone warmly, but on the high tops there 

 was no sunshine, and night descended early, so that even the 

 snow did not lighten the gloom. In the Forest of Rothie- 

 murchus stag answered stag in the stillness of the evening, 

 and away northward shafts of light pierced the sky as the 

 Aurora flickered in the regions about the Pole. 



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