SECOND WEEK 



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January 



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them into straight columns, 

 while the snow, forming unhin- 

 dered in mid-air, resolves itself 

 into these exquisite forms and 

 floral designs. Flowers and 

 rocks are not so very unlike 

 after all. 



Few of us can observe these 

 wonderful forms without feeling 

 the poetry of it all. Thoreau 

 on the fifth day of January, 

 1856, writes as follows: . . . 

 " The thin snow now driving 

 from the north and lodging on 

 my coat consists of those beau- 

 tiful star crystals, not cottony 

 and chubby spokes as on the 

 13th of December, but thin and 

 partly transparent crystals. 



