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I feel as if I were the greatest historian of the age; and, at the same time, as if I were a boy of twelve. It snowed yesterday for the first time in the city, for two good hours. When it had done, I actually went into the square and taught the ragamuffins to make a snowman; no, a snow-woman; and I had the fancy to call her Medea.
What a rush of cold air when the door opened, what snow-powdered garments we used to bring into Deborah's spotless kitchen! Dot used to shiver away from my kisses, and put up a little mittened hand to ward me off. "You are like a snow-woman, Essie," he would say. "Your face is as hard and cold and red as one of the haws Flurry brought me."
Can I walk along with you? Who'd ever have thought that just building that silly snow-woman would have made all this fuss!" "Dr. Caton says thoughtlessness always breeds inconsiderateness and inconsiderateness develops selfishness, selfishness undermines good fellowship and good fellowship is the foundation of the spirit of Lincoln," quoted Jerry in a voice so exactly like Dr.
The first story in the volume is Old Christmas; one of the gems or sweets is Garry Owen, or the Snow-Woman, by Miss Edgeworth, for it abounds with good sentiment, just such as we should wish in the hearts and mouths of our own children, as a spice for their prattle. We pass over L'Egotiste Corrigée, par Madame de Labourt pretty enough and the Ambitious Primrose, by Miss Dagley.
Another moment of silence, a sharp intake of breath, a rattle of paper, then: "Oh I have it!" cried Jerry in a small, frightened voice. "Will the young gentleman or lady who built the snow-woman that stood on the school grounds yesterday morning go at once to my office?" Dr.
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