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beginning to look green ; by June 3rd they had 

 burst out into full leaf, and the whole country 

 suddenly wore a different aspect, as if it had been 

 touched by the wand of an enchanter. Never 

 could I have believed that so sudden a change 

 could take place. A week since, and every birch 

 and willow were as bare as at Christmas, and now 

 the Quickiock valley looked like a beautiful shrub- 

 bery in England. On May 29th some Laps came 

 over the fells, from Norway, to receive the sacra- 

 ment in our little church, and on the road they 

 found the dead body of a man lying on the fells, 

 who had doubtless lost his way in the autumn 

 snow-drift and been frozen to death. They were 

 obliged to leave the body where they found it, and 

 probably ere this the bones have been cleared by 

 the hill-fox and the raven, and now lie bleaching 

 in the wind and sun, a melancholy warning to any 

 traveller who may chance to wander by this lonely 

 spot. I never was lost in the snow in Lapland, 

 for I never was out of sight of home while the 

 snow lay in the forests, but I had. one night's 

 experience in "Wermland, in March, 1862, when the 

 heaviest fall of snow occurred that had been heard 

 of in the middle of Sweden for very many years. 

 As it is not every one who has passed through 

 such a night, the following account which appeared 

 in the Field newspaper at the time, may, perhaps, 

 be interesting to some of my readers : — 



