Excerpt from The Snow Storm: A Christmas Story Most people, unless furriers and coal proprietors, complain bitterly of an early winter. But the con trary extreme seems to beget quite as many malcon tents. In great cities, the weather is accepted at its day's worth, without much thought of the results. Sunshine is sunshirie, let the morrow be what it may. But small towns. Look further because afraid to fare worse. Nor are village gossips to be deceived into the enjoyments of a May-day in December, at the cost of future fevers and rheumatisms, and the chance of being frostbitten by the New Year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.