. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . latter thefarmer and his wife go each year at the approach of cold weather,and return in the spring. When they leave the one place or theother they find some one who is willing to live on the vacant farm,and look after it in consideration of a free rental, liut very likelythis man is the only one of his kind in all New P^ngland. A great many people prepare for winter by banking up theirhouses with leaves or cornstalks held in j^lace by boards stakedagainst them. Some use sods for this banking. On the mostexposed sides of the house double windows are f
. A book of country clouds and sunshine; . latter thefarmer and his wife go each year at the approach of cold weather,and return in the spring. When they leave the one place or theother they find some one who is willing to live on the vacant farm,and look after it in consideration of a free rental, liut very likelythis man is the only one of his kind in all New P^ngland. A great many people prepare for winter by banking up theirhouses with leaves or cornstalks held in j^lace by boards stakedagainst them. Some use sods for this banking. On the mostexposed sides of the house double windows are fastened, andstorm-doors are put on at the main entrances. There is a gen-eral search for cracks to be stopped, and a good deal of tinkeringis done about the out-buildings to make things snug for the hensand cattle. As far as the cold is concerned, winter is most disturbing in I. WINTER LIKE «IN NEW ENGLAND the shiver awakened by its apyproach. Mentally and constitution-ally one soon i^ets adjusted to it, and finds the winter occupations,. An Early Snow the crisp air and the brilliant sunshine, or the white whirl of thestorms, in many ways enjoyable. Besides, it no sooner settlesdown to really cold weather than we begin to look forward tospring, and that gives a warmth which nothing else can. A New h^nglander who has attained distinction in his par-ticular calling- has sometimes told mc that when he and hisbrothers were little fellows, and slei^t in the room umler the roofin the L, the snows would sift in at the cracks in the winterstorms; and when they ran down stairs in the morning, they leftbehind them the tracks of their bare feet in the little stories seem by right to belong to the days of the first jQ ««A BOOK OF COUNTRY ^ CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE settlers ; but wlieii you drive alonp^ the crooked New Englandroadways next summer, notice the houses. There are some, yes,a good many, which seem not to ha\e l)een shingled for an shingles curl up with brittle
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