A SNOW-STOEM 97 



We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth ; 

 it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain is 

 the face of death j yet snow is but the mask of the 

 life-giving rain ; it, too, is the friend of man, — the 

 tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertil- 

 izing snow. 



