On the 20th of January 1494 there was a heavy fall of snow in Florence, and Piero sent for the young sculptor to model a colossal snow-man in the courtyard of his palace.

On the 20th of January 1494 there was a heavy fall of snow in Florence, and Piero sent for the young sculptor to model a colossal snow-man in the courtyard of his palace.

"Had a good day?" said Frederic cheerily, stamping the snow off his boots as I met him at the front-door.

On the north Mt. San Bernardino loomed up, grim, snow-capped and forbidding.

To the east old Tahquitz, guardian of the passes to the desert, reared his snow-capped head, far above the surrounding country.

Crowding all of these was the grease wood with its yellow bloom, the snow-bush or buckthorn, with a blossom resembling white lilac and fully as sweet, and all the other shrubs of our mountain chaparrals, all, however, blended into one beautiful and fragrant bouquet, so exquisitely formed that man's ingenuity could never equal it in arranging floral decorations.

The group of the Prince's Islands, in the Sea of Marmora, and the snow-clad summit of Mount Olympus, close the prospect.

The country was every where covered with snow, and, for some days past, we had walked over the small ponds on the ice.

The summits of the hills on which we stood had snow on them, in some places, many feet deep.

We were the first Europeans who had seen it in an unfrozen state, for the three former parties who had visited it before, were here in the winter, when its waters were frozen and covered over with snow.

There were no porches, over the door was a wide board to keep the rain and snow from beating over the top of the door, with a large log chimney on the outside, plastered between the logs, in which was a fireplace with an open grate to cook on and to put logs on the fire to heat.

Tall, slender, erect, her head crowned by abundant snow white wool, with a fine carriage and an air of poise mud self respect good to behold, Alice belies her 84 years.) "Yes'm, I was born in slavery, I don't look it, but I was!

"My horse died, and, after traveling through the snow-drifts to my appointments, till I was lame, half sick, and unfit for serviceas I had not means to purchase a horse, I thought of quitting the work and going to teaching, and laid the matter before God, in prayer; soon after which, some person at a distance, who heard that I had lost my horse, without my saying a word about it, raised the means by which I procured another.

Ashes, however, were strewn over the rocks to a depth that left his footprints as distinct as they could have been made in a light snow.

"And, Peter, she hes teeny little hands, as wite as snow, like that woman in the picter ma got off of the tea.

" It was time for the baker to open his shop, and he went away, and as he walked home snow-drops and tear-drops were all mixed together on his face.

The next day the sun shone golden, the snow shone silvery, and Barnbury was like a paradise to the good baker.

On went the baker, his head bowed on his breast, the sun shining like tawdry brass, the snow glistening like a slimy, evil thing.

The clouds which have been gathering on the summits, breeding snow and rain, have descended from the heights and enveloped Gastein as in a wet blanket.

During the sitting, while posing quietly, Aniela suddenly shuddered, her face grew very red and then turned as white as snow.

" "There are great and desolate mountains amidst which we should seem no more than little people, there are remote and deserted valleys, there are hidden lakes and snow-girdled uplands untrodden by the feet of men.

The deputy at Snow Mountain. Pt.1-6.

CRAMER-TOBIAS-MEYER, INC. Take a bite with Snow White.

Translated from the Spanish by Francis Haffkine Snow & Beatrice M. Mekota.

BURROUGH, RUTH J. Prom snow to sun.