The RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
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“January Snow" 
The thermometer is below 20. the wind 
n gale. After an interval of more than 
two weeks of fine weather, our country¬ 
side is again in the grip of a stiff nor’- 
wester. For geuuine contentment, picture 
me a farmhouse wrapped in clouds of 
blinding snow. Plenty of flour and sugar 
in the kitchen, and pork in the outhouse. 
A bookcase of Stevenson. Kipling, and 
Loudon, and the mailman with his 
staunch little pony struggling from out 
the white, shifting curtain to bring us the 
news of the day—-heroes both. In touch 
with the outside world through a pair of 
singing wires, and congenial housemates 
whom we may touch with our hands. 
This may he a fearful storm, blit it. is 
very thrilling. Heaven help those crea¬ 
tures who live out in the snow, and grant 
them food to stand the siege. December's 
snow was soon melted hut what has 
fallen today will be with ns in March. 
From now on. the white silence. 
I have been to the kitchen to assure 
myself tlmt there is no danger of the 
flour and sugar running out, and look in 
the coffee can. Tiger George is out on 
the window ledge, peering through the 
dimined into the room, his eicpres- 
sion a mixture of “Can it he possible?” 
and “Do I see correctly?" T turn the 
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Sure aim. that’s the secret of it. Bump- 
in 0 ' against those rubber posts will get 
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The trouble with farming :is n game is 
that when we make a poor guess, it takes 
a whole vent* to recoup. However. T sus¬ 
pect that the man from Florida would 
differ with me there, and say that in Flor¬ 
ida one can raise a crop at nnv time of 
year. 
It is a long way from here to the place 
where the great palm leaves are waving 
in the hot sunshine, and I suspect that 
just at present the man from Florida is 
drawing sojijp unflattering comparisons. 
The snowdritt in front of the garage floor 
has an odd peak that must have been 
fashioned by the very imp himself. That 
is interesting, but this morning you 
couldn’t opeu any of the outhouse doors 
without shoveling, and in that cold 
wind—well, there are conditions more 
pleasant, T admit. Blit, all the same, it 
gives you au appetite for breakfast. 
But the man from Florida keeps a 
cheerful face, even when the frost seems 
thick enough to break the window panes, 
and he wonders if thp flame can actually 
freeze to the hack of the fireplace, as he 
once was told. "Ah don’t want to freeze 
my ears," he explains, when pulling down 
fur parlappcrs for a half-hour’s work out 
at the stable. "Ah can’t see how those 
little sparrows out there keep from frecz- 
in’ on the roost. l>ooks like their feet 
would freeze, anyhow. And the crows—■ 
seems like they’d starve to death, there’s 
so many of ’em. What can they find to 
fill their crops? An' yu say potato bugs 
Jive through just the same.* It certainly 
is mighty strange." 
Against the background of the woods 
down by the pasture snowflakes are drift¬ 
ing in endless procession. Somewhere 
out there the gurney old cook pheasant 
is leading his brave little band. Gurney 
he is, because many a hunter lias laid in 
wait for him. hut never brought him 
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