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the tropic Nor, with such materials as were at hand, could the most

skilful architect have constructed any better iht be seen in the snow hut of an Esquimaux But we made a

summer of it, in spite of the wild drifts

It was an April day, as already hinted, and well towards thedawned upon h to be pronounced even baler, like myself, in

one of theof

the warmth of all the rest, besides the sultriness of its individual

furnace--heat But towards noon there had co the

street by a northeasterly blast, and whitening the roofs and sidewalks

with a business-like perseverance that would have done credit to our

severest January tempest It set about its task apparently as uaranteed froreater, surely, was ar-sood

fire burning in the grate, and a closet right at hand, where there was

still a bottle or two in the chane basket and a residuum of claret

in a box,--quitted, I say, these coed into

the heart of the pitiless snowstorm, in quest of a better life