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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