The annualette : a Christmas and New Year's gift. . to the other pyramidwas seen the never-failing concomitant of allprincely dwellings in Russia, a banya, or bath,apparently formed of balks, which is said tohave been sometimes heated, and even to havebeen appropriated to use. The appearance of the ice palace, it is said,was remarkably splendid when lighted up inthe evening with numerous candles. Amusingtransparencies were usually suspended in thewindows to increase the effect; and the emis-sion of flames by the dolphins and the elephant,all tended to excite greater surprise, while thepeople b
The annualette : a Christmas and New Year's gift. . to the other pyramidwas seen the never-failing concomitant of allprincely dwellings in Russia, a banya, or bath,apparently formed of balks, which is said tohave been sometimes heated, and even to havebeen appropriated to use. The appearance of the ice palace, it is said,was remarkably splendid when lighted up inthe evening with numerous candles. Amusingtransparencies were usually suspended in thewindows to increase the effect; and the emis-sion of flames by the dolphins and the elephant,all tended to excite greater surprise, while thepeople beheld the crystalline mass. Crowds ofvisiters were continually seen around this fan-tastic and unique construction, which remainedentire from the beginning of January almost tothe middle of March. The glassy fabric thenbegan to melt, and was soon afterwards brokeninto pieces, and the ruins were conveyed to theimperial ice-cellar. On the wisdom displayed in the constructionof this costly emblem of worldly glory, theyeader may make his own THE TWO SQUIRRELS, OR, DIVISION OF LABOR. In front of an old-fashioned house in the coun-try, stood an English walnut tree. The househad been inhabited before the American Revo-lution by an officer of the king, and he hadplanted this and some other trees of the kind,which are not native in America, in his grounds,to remind him, probably, of his own old homeover the other side of the water. But the days of the Revolution came American colonists had grown numerous,and they thought they were able to managetheir own affairs. The English governmentdid not think so, and they were constantly mak-ing laws which were considered by the colo-nists as very oppressive; and after a longstruggle, and much fighting and suffering, thecolonies separated from the parent state, andbecame an independent nation. 106 THE TWO SQUIRRELS. In the beginning of these difficulties, theowner of this house, of which I have beenspeaking, who was a commissioner
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