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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 



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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. 



Ill 



You must see how close you had passed to and 

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



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

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

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

 nests; see particularly how many of them were built 



