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"NATURE NEVER DID DECEIVE..."
No sooner had blundering man accomplished the ruin of Halifax than
Mother Nature sent a blizzard with a foot or two of snow. A kindly
dame--as kindly as the old lady of Endor. She has her gentle, her
amorous moods, in which we adore her, and write ballads to her beauty;
but we know, if we are wise, that her beauty is "all in your eye," to
speak in the way of science, not of slang, and that she is savage as a
jungle cat. Like some women and much medicine, she should be well shaken
before taken, and always one must keep an eye upon Nature, or one may
feel her claws in one's back. So we have reflected on a summer's day in
woods; but the forest seemed not less beautiful, nor was our meditation
melancholy. To be saddened by the inescapable is a great mistake.
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