Boy life on the prairie . CHAPTER IV THE GREAT BLIZZARD A BLIZZARD on the prairie corresponds to a storm atsea; it never affects the traveller twice alike. Eachnorther seems to have a manner of attack all its storm may be short, sharp, high-keyed, and malevo-lent, while another approaches slowly, relentlessly, wear-ing out the souls of its victims by its inexorable andlong-continued cold and gloom. One threatens forhours before it comes, the other leaps like a tiger uponthe defenceless settlement, catching the children un-housed, the men unprepared ; of this character was thefirst bliz
Boy life on the prairie . CHAPTER IV THE GREAT BLIZZARD A BLIZZARD on the prairie corresponds to a storm atsea; it never affects the traveller twice alike. Eachnorther seems to have a manner of attack all its storm may be short, sharp, high-keyed, and malevo-lent, while another approaches slowly, relentlessly, wear-ing out the souls of its victims by its inexorable andlong-continued cold and gloom. One threatens forhours before it comes, the other leaps like a tiger uponthe defenceless settlement, catching the children un-housed, the men unprepared ; of this character was thefirst blizzard Lincoln ever saw. The day was warm and sunny. The eaves drippedmusically, and the icicles dropping from the roof fell oc-casionally with pleasant crash. The snow grew slushy,and the bells of wood teams jingled merrily all the fore-noon, as the farmers drove to their timber-lands five orsix miles away. The room was uncomfortably warmat times, and the master opened the outside door. Itwas the eighth day of January. One
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