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Father Winter
" Doubtless we will as truly fail to appreciate the trials of our heroine, as I may, without extravagance, call her; nor can I depict to you the scenes as she related them to me, in so vivid a manner that I seemed to accompany her, and made one of the party. I can but give a skeleton of her story as she told it to me, with my memory refreshed by her diary. We must take into consideration the season of the year—November—the almost arctic climate of the hills she was to traverse, with three small children, on the backs of two horses, with but here and there a habitation in the wilder-ness, almost without roads, and all will agree that the picture can hardly be overdrawn.
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