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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS.
If we did not have a white Christmas we had a white New Year.

Midway between the two came a heavy snowfall.

It was winter in our orchard of old delights then,--so truly winter that it was hard to believe summer had ever dwelt in it, or that spring would ever return to it.

There were no birds to sing the music of the moon; and the path where the apple blossoms had fallen were heaped with less fragrant drifts.