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It was hardly to be wondered at the wonder was, how I, wandering for ten days in a bitter snowstorm almost naked as to my lower extremities, escaped with my life.
Taft had chosen a new set of advisers, and he denied that he had given any one reason to believe that he would do otherwise. March 4, 1909, was a wintry day in Washington. A snowstorm and high winds prevented holding the inaugural exercises out of doors as usual on the East Front of the Capitol. President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft drove in state down Pennsylvania Avenue, and Mr.
Susan said to Doctor Cotton-Tail, "How did you happen to come out in this big snowstorm?" Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "I had a call to make, I was going to visit " Just then Susan began to sneeze. She sneezed so hard she nearly sneezed her head off! Doctor Cotton-Tail said, "Susan that is quite absurd, Such sneezing I have never heard."
Peter, the admirable cat whose brief history I am about to relate, appeared in the world on a terrible winter's night. A fierce snowstorm was raging, the sleet was driving at a terrific rate through the air, and the streets were banked up with snow-drifts.
The clouds are flying past very fast, and it seems to me as ef we're in for a big gale of wind." "But that will drift the snow and cover our footsteps almost as well as a snowstorm," Harold said. "Yes, it 'll do all that," the scout answered. "What is the objection to it, Peter?"
The operation of dressing was by no means a comfortable one, for the frost had set in in earnest during the night, and their clothes, with the exception of the shirts, were as stiff as boards. The snow had ceased and the sky was clear. "It is going to be a fine day, master," Paolo said as they left the hut. "That is better than battling with a snowstorm such as that of yesterday evening.
Then, as likely as not, a few days later, what is called a 'goose winter' a heavy, wet snowstorm followed by colder weather may come along and try to drive the birds all back again; but before the bad weather completes its useless work a timely south wind may arrive, and with the aid of a milder spell, will utterly destroy the 'goose winter'. Then, after that, the sky soon becomes mottled with flying birds of many kinds: gray geese, laughing geese, waveys, and white geese, as well as great flocks of ducks of many kinds; also mud-hens, sawbills, waders, plovers, curlew, pelicans, swans, and cranes, both white and gray.
For a moment these clouds, piled in mountain shape of an intense whiteness with round curving edges, held his eyes because they exactly resembled those clouds that had hung above him on the day of his walk to Sannet Wood the day when he had been caught by the snowstorm. These clouds brooded, waiting above him; their dazzling white had the effect of a steady, unswerving gaze. They lined out.
This was the winter famed in the history of Massachusetts, as producing the severest snowstorm ever known, and for a week I was snow-bound in my boarding-house, where my bright-eyed, sweet-faced cousins were most agreeable substitutes for my plug-ugly pupils.
Our machine was speedier than the German Aeroplane, which was constructed of steel and was so heavy it could not work up the speed of the French army monoplane. "We were able to get over the German lines and my companion began hurling thousands of the pamphlets in every direction. It was like a snowstorm.
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