Mistress Pat
“It was a very cold winter … so cold that there was not only frost but feathers on the windows most of the time … and there was much snow and wild wind in birch and spruce. And never a thaw, not even in January, although Tillytuck was loath to give up hope of one.
“I’ve never seen a January without a thaw yet and I’ve seen hundreds of them,” he asserted … and wondered grumpily why everybody laughed. But he saw one that year. The cold continued unbroken. The stones around Judy’s flower beds alway...s wore white snow caps and looked like humpy little gnomes. Pat was glad the garden was covered up. It always hurt her to see her beautiful garden in winters when there was little snow … so forsaken looking, with mournful bare flower stalks sticking up out of the hard frozen earth and bare, writhing shrubs that you never could believe could be mounds of rosy blossoms in June. It was nice to think of it sleeping under a spotless coverlet, dreaming of the time when the first daffodil would usher in spring’s age of gold.MoreLess
“I’ve never seen a January without a thaw yet and I’ve seen hundreds of them,” he asserted … and wondered grumpily why everybody laughed. But he saw one that year. The cold continued unbroken. The stones around Judy’s flower beds alway...s wore white snow caps and looked like humpy little gnomes. Pat was glad the garden was covered up. It always hurt her to see her beautiful garden in winters when there was little snow … so forsaken looking, with mournful bare flower stalks sticking up out of the hard frozen earth and bare, writhing shrubs that you never could believe could be mounds of rosy blossoms in June. It was nice to think of it sleeping under a spotless coverlet, dreaming of the time when the first daffodil would usher in spring’s age of gold.MoreLess
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