CMAS was coming.

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    Pas breat out in clouds and it froze in  on ache and beard.

    amping ts, and caug , actle drops of melting frost.

    Every nigled til  and smooth as silk.

    t tting to little peaks and toar carved on tallest point.  little  ttle stars, and crescent moons, and circles. All around tiny leaves, and flowers, and birds.

    One of ttle boards s edges ars, and t  crescent moons and curlicues.

    Around t board iny flowering vine.

    iniest sting very sloty.

    At last  ted togetifully carved back for a smoottle ss middle. tar  top of it. ted t ifully, too. And ttle vine ran around the shelf.

    Pa  for a Cmas present for Ma.  carefully against tood tle che shelf.

    ttle c on  , and stle gilt ciful, standing on tar at top.

    Ma mas. S-rising bread and ryenlnjun bread, and She cake spoon.

    One morning sogetil t in tdoors. Laura and Mary each had a

    pan, and Pa and Ma so pour ttle streams on to the snow.

    t once and  was saved for Cmas Day.

    All t Eliza and Uncle Peter and ter and Alice and Ella, o spend Cmas.

    tmas t, and t of to te. Aunt Eliza and Uncle Peter and t, all covered up, under blankets and robes and buffalo skins.

    ts and mufflers and veils and s they looked like big, shapeless bu