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sleeping along its stem, the speckled black alder, the 

 rapid-growing dogwood, the pale-brown and cracked 

 blueberry, etc. Even a little shining bud which lies 

 sleeping behind its twig and dreaming of spring, per- 

 haps half concealed by ice, is object enough. I feel 

 myself upborne on the andromeda bushes beneath 

 the snow, as on a springy basketwork, then down I 

 go up to my middle in the deep but silent snow, which 

 has no sympathy with my mishap. Beneath the level 

 of this snow how many sweet berries will be hanging 

 next Augu^! 



Journal, viii, 99, 100. 



