Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
At tor. he snow lay
deepest no ured near my night
at a time, but ttle
and poultry wo ime buried
in drifts, even food; or like t early settlers family in
toton, in tate, ely
covered by t snow of 1717 w, and an Indian
found it only by the
drift, and so relieved t no friendly Indian concerned
me; nor needed er of t
Snoo he
farmers could not get to teams, and
o cut dorees before their houses, and,
rees in ten feet
from t appeared t spring.
In t snoo
my ed by a
meandering dotted line, ervals bets. For a
ook exactly teps, and of
tepping deliberately and h
tracks -- to such
routine ter reduces us -- yet often th
no erfered fatally h my walks,
or ratly tramped eigen
miles t snoo keep an appointment h a beech
tree, or a yellohe pines;
wo droop, and so
sops, o fir trees; wading
to tops of t
deep on a level, and sorm on my
every step; or sometimes creeping and floundering ther on my
ers o er quarters.
One afternoon I amused myself by crix
nebulosa) sitting on one of te pine,
close to trunk, in broad dayliganding hin a rod of
h my
feet, but could not plainly see me. noise he would
stretc hers, and open his eyes
to nod. I too
felt a slumberous influence after ching him half an hour, as he
sat t, he