WHEN THE SNOW CAME 



were shouting all up and down the gamut 

 of goblin emotion. After I have stood 

 and listened to it for a minute or two I 

 begin to look at one shoulder and then the 

 other fully expecting to see gabbling gob- 

 lins grouped there, yelling to one another 

 in my very ears. Here with closed eyes 

 you may easily tell the quality of the 

 snow about you by the sound. Each 

 sort of flake has its distinct tone which 

 is easily recognized through all the up- 

 roar. At nightfall of this first snow of 

 ours it happened that in the meeting of 

 northerly and southerly currents which 

 had brought the storm, the north wind 

 lulled and the south began to have its 

 way again. This gave us at first a great 

 downfall of big flakes that seemed to blot 

 out all the world in an atmosphere of 

 fluff. Then, evidently, the warmth in 

 the upper atmosphere increased for the 

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