The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17

furred and muffied to his nose) turning
the corner of street. Now, the sleigh of
IL picture book, however we'll one knows
UT, is altogether different from the thing in
real life, ameans of conveyance at jour
ney's end. but it is we'll not to be over
curious in the matter, for the same Amer
lean who has been telling you at length
how he once followed killed Scots SOL
der from Chelsea to the Tower, out of
pure wonder and curiosity at his bare
knees and sporran, will laugh at your in
terest in lust cutter"
The staff of the train-surely the great
American nation would be lost if deprived
oithe enrolling society OF brakeman. con-
ductor, Pullman car conductor. negro por-
ter and newsboy-told pleasant tales, as
they spread themselves at ease in the
smoking compartment, of snowings Up on
Inc line to Montreal. of desperate attacks
ioul engines together and snow-plow
IN iront-on drifts thirty feet high, and
Inc pleasure of walking along the tops of
goods wagons to brake tram with the
thermometer 30 degrees below freezing. ut
comes cheaper to kill men that way than
toput AIR brakes on freight cars" said the
brakeman.
thirty below freezing! 1t was incon-
eeyable till one stepped out into it at mid
night, and the first shock of that clear.
shil air took away the breath as plunge
INTO sea water does. A walrus sitting
on woolpack was our host in his sleigh,
and he wrapped us in hairy goatskin
caps that came down over the
ears, buffalo robes and blankets, and yet
more buffalo robes, till we, too. looked like
sairuses and moved almost as gracefully.
lhe night was as keen as the edge of
newly ground sword, breath froze on the
eost lappels in snow, the nose became
without sensation and the eyes wept Bit
1 @riy because the horses were in a hurry
@get home, and whirling through the air
Zero brings tears. But for the jingle of
me sleigh bells the ride might have taken
pace In dream, for there was no sound
hoois upon the snow, the runners
sgned little now and again as they
tued over an inequality, and all the
saeeted bills round about were dumb as
aeath. Only the Connecticut river kept
W us heart and n lane OF black water
through the packed ice. We could see
1e Stream worrying round the heels
It's small bergs. Elsewhere there
II
aoon-snow drfted TO the level of the
zone fences or curling over their tops in
y oil frosted silver; snow banked high on
.a'her side of the road or lying heavy on
Se pines and the hemlocks in the woods,
snere the air seemed. by comparison. as
arm as q conservatory. 1t was beautiful
Syond expression. Nature boldest sketch
piacS and white, done with a Japanese
1 legsrd oi perspective and darlngly alt
II e.Fu from -, TINA hxr tina less
| els Of the moon
~ the morning the other side of the pic
| e was revealed in the colors of the sun
.sn1 there was never cloud in the sky
.ua' rested on the snow line of the horizon
sapphire on white velvet. Hills of
sare White or speckled and furred with
LvSIs rose up above the solid white
YES OF the fields, and the sun rioted
.'er their embroideries till the eyes
1 nea' Here and there on the exposed
1 ,.opes the days warmth--the thermome-
~ was nearly 40 degrees-and the nights
s so1u mad made bald and shining crust
Won the snow; but the most part was
MI. powdered stuff, ready to catch the
aaeht on thousand crystals and multiply
ssveniold. Through this magnlfcence,
/ AZ thinking nothing of il, a wood sledge
Stawn by two shaggy red steers. the I'M
.SAed logs diamond-dusted with snow,
/ ssaou'uered down the road in cloud OF
| rusty breath. 1t is the mark of lnexperl-
80 IN tins section of the country 10 con-
Sead the sleigh which you use for riding
- the sledge that is devoted to heavy
sork, ana it is, believe. a still greater
/ ssn OF worthlessness to think that oxen
/ Faces, by scientific twisting of the
n; The driver, with red mittens
Va ms hands. felt overstockings that come
| 40 ~ 70 MS knees, and perhaps silyery-gray
9n-skin coat on his back, walks beside
| Nsihg Gee, Haw!' even as is written in