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plunged over the falls and had frozen 
them all together into great long icicles 
two or three feet wide. There they hung 
right from the edge of each rocky ledge 
and then Jack froze the little creek itself 
all up so that it could not move an inch! 
This morning, the sun had come out 
and such a sight as Mollie beheld! The 
long sheets of frozen water and the huge 
icicles glittered and shone like gold and 
silver and diamonds. Every spray-cov¬ 
ered blade of grass, each little twig, 
sparkled and gleamed as if all the jewels 
in the world had been poured into this 
rocky gorge. Up and up,—as far as 
Mollie could see, were the glittering 
things,—clear to the top of the mountain, 
where some big pines swept their long, 
green arms down and covered it up. 
Mollie was puzzled. She had never seen 
the ravine look like this and she hopped 
along very cautiously and very much puz- 
