. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. X. SNOW gECEMBER brings out all of Nature's re- sources. The old mother has fed her children with water in the summer of their growth, and now, when they lie down for their long winter sleep, she turns the water into a blanket which she carefully tucks about them. And wonderful water it is of which this covering is made. Clean, soft, white, porous, it is an ideal protection. When she turns her liquids into solids Na- ture makes crystals of them. She has only a few general plans for her crystals, but her variations of these plans
. Under the open sky; being a year with nature. Natural history. X. SNOW gECEMBER brings out all of Nature's re- sources. The old mother has fed her children with water in the summer of their growth, and now, when they lie down for their long winter sleep, she turns the water into a blanket which she carefully tucks about them. And wonderful water it is of which this covering is made. Clean, soft, white, porous, it is an ideal protection. When she turns her liquids into solids Na- ture makes crystals of them. She has only a few general plans for her crystals, but her variations of these plans are infinite. The one she uses when she builds up the snow crystals is, of all others, the one that makes them pack most loosely. , 247. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Schmucker, Samuel Christian, b. 1860. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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