StNicholas [serial] . Summer. Winter. THE PTARMIGAN TURNS WHITE. blackness of the stone wall. The hawkweeds, too,have passed from yellow to brown and thence toa wintery whiteness. The fluffy thistle-heads, once so rich a purple, and the milkweed pods,once heavy with their burden of brown seedsoverlapping one another like the scales of somegreat fish, are now tossing aloft their whitenessby the handful. An apple-tree by the roadside has been em-braced by a part of the winters white flora, forthe beautifully plume-like fruit of the clematis isadorning it, while the woody stems have climbedfar up
StNicholas [serial] . Summer. Winter. THE PTARMIGAN TURNS WHITE. blackness of the stone wall. The hawkweeds, too,have passed from yellow to brown and thence toa wintery whiteness. The fluffy thistle-heads, once so rich a purple, and the milkweed pods,once heavy with their burden of brown seedsoverlapping one another like the scales of somegreat fish, are now tossing aloft their whitenessby the handful. An apple-tree by the roadside has been em-braced by a part of the winters white flora, forthe beautifully plume-like fruit of the clematis isadorning it, while the woody stems have climbedfar up among the supporting and protectingbranches. Some fence corners and trees assume a floralwhiteness, while others are beautified by crystals,for Every pine and fir and hemlock Wears ermine too dear for an earl, and the buildings, like those about which Lowelltells us, are new-roofed with Carrara (a verywhite marble). The brooks soon become fringed with whitesculpturing; window-panes, fence rails, even thestones of the
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