THINGS TO SEE THIS WINTER 45 



What a world of gray days, waste lands, bare 

 woods, and frozen waters there is to see ! And you 

 should see them gray and bare and waste and 

 frozen. But what is a frozen pond for if not to be 

 skated on ? and waste white lands, but to go sleigh- 

 ing over? and cold gray days, but so many oppor- 

 tunities to stay indoors with your good books ? 



See the winter bleak and cheerless as at times 

 you will, and as at times you ought ; still if you will 

 look twice, and think as you look, you will see the 

 fishermen on the ponds catching pickerel through the 

 ice life swimming there under the frozen surface ! 

 You will see the bare empty woodland fresh budded 

 to the tip of each tiny twig life all over the trees 

 thrust forward to catch the touch of spring ! You 

 will see the wide flinty fields thick sown with seeds 

 life, more life than the sun and the soil can feed, 

 sleeping there under " the tender, sculpturesque, 

 immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow " ! 



