The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . £.$ The days begin to grow longer. The dusky afternoons of December have given place to abrighter sky, and a serener atmosphere But the moon-lit streets are slippery wiih ice ; andthe wayfarer hurries, like a startled ghost, along the pavement, as he feels the keen air search-ing for a passage between his joints. Piled in the streets are gathered masses of ice *, and theI queen of night looks down upon a realm of conglomerated
The Crockett almanac : containing sprees and scrapes in the West; life and manners in the backwoods, and exploits and adventures on the praries . £.$ The days begin to grow longer. The dusky afternoons of December have given place to abrighter sky, and a serener atmosphere But the moon-lit streets are slippery wiih ice ; andthe wayfarer hurries, like a startled ghost, along the pavement, as he feels the keen air search-ing for a passage between his joints. Piled in the streets are gathered masses of ice *, and theI queen of night looks down upon a realm of conglomerated frost. Drooping and desolate, theswain stands in the midst of his fields, where verdure nor vegetation, herb nor green leaf,forms a jink between ihe memory of the past season and the promise of the future, — savethat, in the centre of yon wood, environed by dry branches and naked trees, the evergreen rearsits fadeless top high in the cold air, amid whose ever-verdant leaves the Almighty has set Hispromise, that Summer and Winter, seed-time and harvest, shall continue until the end oftime. — This is the bitter month of Winter, yet does it precede the opening of t
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