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Father Winter
The trees were loaded with snow, which occasionally fell in masses on the heads of the chilled and weary travelers. Elly had many times covered himself with snow from the bushes on his way to school, but he now discovered that there could be " too much of a good thing. '' They had gone but about two miles when the old horse, from whom they had learned to expect nothing but misfortune, got a leg fast by the side of an invisible log, and it was some time before they could extricate him, badly lamed. However, they got the children on again, and proceeded at a slow gait for nearly a mile,
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