It is a good deal warmer to-day, and has been thawing in the sun; if the cold and the siege had continued much longer, the Prussians would have found us all in bed.

It is a far easier thing to cut down a tree than to make it burn.

Proverbs are not always true; and I have found to my bitter experience of late that the proverb that "there is no smoke without a fire" is untrue.

The Tupper who made it never tried to burn green wood..