" "I haven't used the whip once, Father, but I thought it was better to get them on as fast as I could, for I have felt and seen ever so many snowflakes in the last half-hour," Katherine said penitently.

An automobile stood outside, and from it an excited party trooped into the hallway, disregarding the cutting wind and blinding snowflakes that assailed them as they passed in.

A chill wind blew and for a time carried isolated snowflakes whirling here and there.

[Enter SNOWFLAKE with a pail of water.

Slowly the cloud moved scattering the snowflakes till they felt relieved.

She sat there staring into space and seeing the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, hawked by newsboys, on stands, thrust under doors, going like spreading snowflakes of a big storm into post-offices, to racing trains, all over the land.

They told of the giant redwood's growth from a tiny seed; of the avalanche that, born a snowflake, heaves and grows on the peaks, to shrink and die on the level lands below.

GOBLINS OP THE STEPPES Stormy clouds delirious straying, Showers of whirling snowflakes white, And the pallid moonbeams waning Sad the heavens, sad the night!