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Snow-laden 
trees 
Damadale and Kstabrook hooda 
It snowed all day yesterday*and the tight >efore 
as well., but at no time very heavily, only about six 
iiohes falling la all. The snow was moist and heavy and 
as there was no wind it clung to every twig, loading the 
trees with a burden of snotless white, I walked up through 
the D^msdale late yesterday afternoon before the storm had 
mite ce sed. The woods wore vein; beautiful everywhere, 
but especially where there were evergreens i itermlxed* 
Under some of the nines the ground was perfectly bare, the 
branches having intercepted literally every snow-flake. The 
gray birches, almost without exception, were bent down so 
that their tops nearly or quite touched the ground. They 
looked like great ostrich plumes. The broad wo d-nath 
thr ugh Ur. Derby* s.woods was completely closed by them so 
that I had to leave it and follow the argl r of the brook. 
Saw no tracks whatever. 
This morning 1 went to the lime kiln, riding up 
the Untabrook road on a wood sled. The scene, after we had 
fairly entered the woods, was simply one of bewildering 
beauty. I can find no words to describe it but I do not 
think I have ever seen it equalled., before. The forest had 
put on a ermine robe, "at a tree or a bush of whatever 
species that was not clad /holly in purest white. 
Even the 
