These flakes are albumen, a substance precisely similar, in all its properties, to the white of egg (see No. 101).

Each flake of snow is pretty A spangle or a gem; But they melt away in dew-drops I can not treasure them.

But a prettier one than that, her husband thought, was to see her in her boat at sunset; when sea and sky were aflame, when every flake of foam was a rainbow, and the great chalk-cliffs were blood-red; when the wind blew her net off, and in pretty petulance she pulled her hair down, and it rippled all about her as she dipped into the blazing West.

These flakes are albumen, a substance precisely similar, in all its properties, to the white of egg (see No. 101).