The Pond in Winter
yet rarer colors, like flowers and
precious stones, as if the animalized nuclei
or crystals of ter. they, of course, are alden all
over and all the animal
kingdom, aldenses. It is surprising t t here --
t in ttling
teams and cinkling sleig travel the alden road,
t gold and emerald fiso see its
kind in any market; it here.
Easily, ery
gs, like a mortal translated before ime to thin air of
heaven.
As I o recover t bottom of alden
Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in
46, here have been many
stories told about ttom, or rattom, of this pond,
is remarkable
tomlessness of a pond
taking trouble to sound it. I ed tomless
Ponds in one
alden reace to the globe. Some
ime, looking dohrough
tery eyes into the bargain,
and driven to y conclusions by tching cold in
ts, ;into w
be driven,quot; if to drive it, ted source
of tyx and entrance to ts.
Ot;fifty-sixquot; and a
o find any bottom; for
y-sixquot; ing by t
ttempt to fatruly immeasurable
capacity for marvellousness. But I can assure my readers t
alden igtom at a not unreasonable, though
at an unusual, dept easily h a cod-line and a
stone ely
ttom, by o pull so much harder
before ter got underneato est depth was
exactly one ; to whe five
feet w