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• a thin covering of new snow covers these 



///tfdx/jfy Ul w hite fields; and then, if you go there, you 



will find the new page written all over with 

 the feet of birds and beasts. The mice espe- 

 cially love these snow-fields for some un- 

 known reason. All along the edges you find 

 the delicate, lacelike tracery which shows 

 where little feet have gone on busy errands 

 or played together in the moonlight ; and if 

 you watch there awhile you will surely see 

 Tookhees come out of the moss and scamper 

 across a bit of snow and dive back to cover 

 under the moss again, as if he enjoyed the 

 feeling of the cold snow under his feet in 

 the summer sunshine. He has tunnels there, 

 too, going down to solid ice, where he hides 

 things to keep which would spoil if left in 

 the heat of his den under the mossy stone, 

 and when food is scarce he draws upon these 

 cold-storage rooms ; but most of his summer 

 snow journeys, if one may judge from watch- 

 ing him and from following his tracks, are 

 taken for play or comfort, just as the bull 

 caribou comes up to lie in the snow, with 



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