. Stowe notes, letters and verses . ght at Four Winds. For my ownpart, I am amused by watching to see how low the tem-perature will fall; I do not suffer from the cold. February saw Mr. W., and asked him about the breedingof Nancys dams sires dam Hibernia. He wrote it outin the form of a signed statement, and I called at hisoffice this morning to get it. He read it to me in an ora-torical manner, waving his right hand and looking up atme at each period, his voice deep and rolling. He sattilted back in his chair, his feet on the stove, and his hatcocked over one eye. TO HIS SISTER Stowe, F
. Stowe notes, letters and verses . ght at Four Winds. For my ownpart, I am amused by watching to see how low the tem-perature will fall; I do not suffer from the cold. February saw Mr. W., and asked him about the breedingof Nancys dams sires dam Hibernia. He wrote it outin the form of a signed statement, and I called at hisoffice this morning to get it. He read it to me in an ora-torical manner, waving his right hand and looking up atme at each period, his voice deep and rolling. He sattilted back in his chair, his feet on the stove, and his hatcocked over one eye. TO HIS SISTER Stowe, February 18, 1895. You ask if I am not to send another picture to theExhibition. I really dont know. Perhaps you heardthat I began one of the Mountain, that I was compelledto relinquish, and my hope was then to finish a smallerwinter sunset picture, which I began in November. The reason why I gave up the former is that the sub-ject is too great to be treated otherwise than with thebest of whatever powers one may possess. This winter. LETTERS 291 I have been conscious of the beauty of the country ratheras pain than as pleasure. It has oppressed without in-spiring me; all this winters painting I have done undera compelling sense of duty, and not because I have foundinterest or amusement in it. I have felt the difficultiesmuch more than heretofore, and they are great. In thefirst place, the weather is so variable that the same effect(or what is approximately the same, sufficiently so for apainters purpose) occurs perhaps at intervals of four orfive days; then the excessive cold compels one to paint ina cumbersome fur coat, and causes such difficulties as theclouding of the glass, the stiffening of the fingers, andlimits my endeavors to the little space of some two hours,for besides the energy expended in the work there is theadditional demand for resistance of the cold. You canwell imagine that work so interrupted and of such shortduration must be taken up in no placid spirit. When
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