A TALE OF A WINTER MIDNIGHT. 281 
circumstances. ‘The grandmother took the new-born babe, amid the almost 
palpable blackness of darkness, the sleeting, and the yelling winds, and 
dipped it in the ice-cold creek. Again and again she dipped it, while now 
and then the hunters could hear its stout-lunged protest above the roaring. 
Not only did the infant survive this unparalleled treatment, but it grew 
excellently well. In memory of the extraordinary circumstances under 
which it was ushered into this world, Young named it ‘‘ Snow-flake,” and 
it is living to. this day, a wild-eyed lad in Tehama. 
