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About the open doorways, moreover, people lounged gossiping; and the interiors of the entry-halls, as they appeared to the passing glance, were clean, and had not that forbidding, inhospitable air characteristic of most house-entrances in North Italy.
After the above incident, another begetting of Kami takes place on a large scale, but only a very few of them such as the guardian of the kitchen, the protector of house-entrances, the Kami of agriculture, and so forth have any intelligible place in the scheme of things. THE dividing line between mythological tradition and historical legend is now reached.
Then came the snow, which fell for three days and nights on end, and for several nights after, so that the town was lost under a white pall: house-entrances were with difficulty kept free, and the swept streets were banked with walls of snow, four and five feet high. The night-frosts redoubled their keenness; the snow underfoot crackled like electric sparks; the sleighs crunched the roads.
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