House-Warming
der ted regularity
in to t of five eighths of
an incition the
er and thick; and in many
places tition out downward,
and probably t all under t bubbles,
er. I inferred t te number
of minute bubbles the under surface
of t eacs
degree, ed like a burning-glass on to melt
and rot it. ttle air-guns e to make
the ice crack and whoop.
At lengter set in good earnest, just as I had finished
plastering, and to had
not o do so till t after nighe geese
came lumbering in tling of wings,
even after to alight in
alden, and some flying looward Fair haven, bound
for Mexico. Several times, ten
or eleven oclock at nigread of a flock of geese,
or else ducks, on the woods by a pond-hole behind
my d honk or
quack of they hurried off. In 1845 alden froze
entirely over for t time on t of the 22d of
December, Flints and othe river having
been frozen ten days or more; in 46, t the
31st; and in 50, about th of
January; in 53, t of December. the snow had already covered
th of November, and surrounded me suddenly
er. I farto my shell,
and endeavored to keep a brighin
my breast. My employment out of doors noo collect the dead
, bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or
sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under eaco my shed. An
old forest fence days hau