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VOLUME 2 :XI.— Xo. 12. 
NEW YORK, DECEMBER, 1872. 
NEW SERIES— So. 311. 
AFTER THE GRE 
In many parts of the Northern States the 
scene depicted by our artist in the above en- 
graving happens yearly. Not uncommonly the 
winter opens with a heavy fall of snow, some- 
times equal to two feet on a level, and this, 
when driven into heaps and banks by the 
north wind, makes it necessary for backwoods- 
men to turn out and " break roads." Then the 
neighbors come out each with a yoke of cattle — 
for horses would be useless for this work — and 
one mounted on snow-shoes leads the way, fol- 
lowed by the oxen, who waddle through the 
deep snow slowly and clumsily ; but they beat 
down the snow with their great limbs, and when 
five or six or more yoke follow each other, a 
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SNOW-STORM . — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculiuritt. 
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broad track is soon made. So they proceed, stop- 
ping now and then that a great tree, overloaded 
and broken down with snow and fallen across the 
road, may be cut out. By and by a drift is 
reached, into which the leading oxen plunge 
until nothing but their noses, elevated as much 
as possible, and the tips of their horns, can be 
seen. But the snow settles down over their 
barks as they wallow through the deepest part, 
and then as they emerge they look as though 
they swam in a sea of the purest foam, which 
rolls down the side of the drift in little ripples, 
and drops off their great sides. The others fol- 
low, and the "beautiful snow" that has been 
woven bv the fingers of the north wind into 
a fringe of purest white and most delicate 
pattern around the edge of the woods, is all 
broken down and soiled, and its beauty all 
gone. This is the way some look at it, but those 
whose business it is to battle with snow, and 
beat it down, making roads through it, or chop- 
ping down trees and making logs in it, or 
wading through it to get to their barns to feed 
their hungry cows, and shovel it away from 
their stable-doors, or hunt beneath it for the ax 
or what-not, carelessly left out to be snowed 
under — why, they vote it a nuisance, without 
considering how they would do their work in 
the woods, or haul their great loads, or go sleigh- 
riding, if it were not for a great snow-storm. 
