Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-10-19

fan, and monkeying with posy of lily flowers.
Wouldn't it make you look for your pocket
pass? You'd be liable to kiss her before you col
lected your presence OF mind"
BY and by, the flood of Ross talk drawn up
into the clouds $50 it pleased me to fancy and
there condensed into the finer snowhakes of thought,
and we sat silent about the stove, as good friends
and bitter enemies will do.
OF all the curious knickknacks, mysteries puzzles,
Indian gifts, rat-trap, and we-dsguised blessings
that the gods chuck down from the Olympian
peaks, the most dsqueting and evil-bringng is the
By scientific analysis it is absolute beauty
and purity-so, at the beginning we look doubtully
at chemistry.
It falls upon the world and 10! we live in another.
1t hides in night the old and familiar places
with which have grown heartsick or enamored.
So, quietly can, hustle
broidered robes and HE Prince Camaral-
zanan's horse in the reindeer sleigh into the
white country where the colors converge.
This is when our fancy can overcome the bane
of it
But in certain spots of the earth comes the
madness, made known by people turned wild and
distracted by the bewildcrng veil that has obscured
the only world they know. In the cities the white
fairy who sets the brains Of her dupes whirling by
of her wand is cast for the comedy role.
prouette she invites the spotless carnival.
But in the waste places the is sardonic.
Sponging the world Of the outliers, it gives
no foothod on another sphere in return, 1t makes
of the earth armament under foot; it leaves
clawng and stumbling in space in inmical
fifth element whose evil oudOes its strangeness
and beauty. There Nature low Coincidence, plays
her tricks man. Though she has put him forth
as her highest product, it appears that she has
fashioned him with what almost incredible
Carelee and indeXterity. One-sided and with
out balance with his two halves uneequary iasn-
toned and joined, must he ever jog his eccentric
way. The falls, the darkness caps it, and the
ridiculous man-biped strays in accurate circles until
he succumbs in the ruins OF his defective archl-
lecture.
In the throat of the thirsty the is vitriol
In appearance as plausible as the breakfast food
of the angels, it is hot in the mouth ginger,
increasing the pangs OF the water -famished 1t IS
derivative from water, air, and some cold, un-
canny fire from which the caoric has been extracted
Good has been said OF it; even the poets crazed
by its spell and shiverirg in their atcs under its
touch have indted permanent melodies commem-
oravc of its beauty.
paguc--a corroding plague that Pharaoh success
fully sdesteppcd: 1t benehoently covers the wheat
fields swelling the erop-and the hiouF rust gets
the tail OF its white krtle the red seams OF
the rugged nortl--and the Alaskan short story is
born Etioated perhdy, IT shelters the mountain
traveller burrowng from the icy air-and melting
Tomorrow browns his brother in the valley below:
At its worst it is lock and key and crucble and
ranches mountain cabins. and forest huts the snow
makes apes and tigers OF the hardest 1t turns tha
hosoms OF weaker ones to glass the tongues to IN
1t is not all from the isolation; the snow Is not
merely blockader; it is a Chemical Test 1t is a
good man who show reaction that IS not
chiefly composed of drachm two OF potash and
magncsa, with traces OF Adam, Ananias, Nebuchad-
nczzar, and the fretful porcupine
This is story. you say; wei, let IT begin.
There was a knock the door Us the opening
not full of and Renaissance, oh best buyers
OF best sellers).
We drew the latch, and in stumbled ftienne
Girod Gas he afterwards named hinselD. But just
then he was no more than worn Struggling lo'
We dug down through snow, overcoats. muitiers
and waterproofs, and dragged forth a living thing
with Van Dyck beard and marvellous diamond
rings. We put it through the approved curriculum
of snow rubbing, hot milk and teaspooniul dose
of whisky, working him up to graduating eas.
entitled to diploma OF three hngerS OF rye II
half a sful Of hot water.
Eenne was an opera singer originally we gath
cred; but adversely and the snow had made HIN
non compos vocis. The adversely consisted OF thu
stranded San Salvador Opera Company pero'
OF hotel sccond-story work: ana then career a
For, like other professional palmists every time
he worked the Heart Line too strongly he i'm
medatcly moved along the Line OF Least Resist
ance THOUGH Etenne did conhde this to us
we surmiscd he had moved out into the dusk abou
twenty minutes ahead OF constable and had thu
"Mee-ser-rhablcw commented ftienne, and tool
another three fingers.
, blank" said Ross, and followed suit.
Rotten said |,
The cook said nothing He stood in the door
weighing our outburst; and mistakenly from benin
that frozen visage got two messages (via tn
M. wireess), One that George considere
our vituperaton against the snow childish tn
other was that George did not love Dagoes mas
much Etenne was Frenchman, ! conclude
e had the message wrong. SO quered the other
c Bright eyes you don't really mean Dagoes, d
7 you'" and the wireless three DEATH,
psychic taps yes" Then ! reflected that
George all foreigners probably "Dagoes'
II have said that snow is test Of men For on
e day, two days, Etienne stood at the windoy
& Fetchcrzing his finger nails and shrieking an
moaning at the monoony. To me- Etiennc wa
just about unbearable the snow and So sect
r ing relief, | went out the second day to loo