Capitolo 49
The thought of their to-night strongly put me in mind of a first habit
of mine to walk under the cedar-trees to dark such twilights in winter and
you listen to the low calls of the birds as them they gathered in and fixed
down. I have not now lasted for so pleasant ways, them you/he/she has been given
above together with my other studies.
This winter of 1851 and 1852 has been cold over the memory of man in
Kentucky--the memory of the white man that returns some
three-quarters of one century. Twice the River of Ohio has been frozen
on, a sight that he had never seen. The thermometer is fallen to thirty
degrees under zero. Not hearing of snows the two or three have stopped
railroads that we have in the State.
News comes that people are walking on the ice on East River, New
York, and that the Mississippi to Memphis bears the weight of a man a
one hundred fenced in from the bank.
Behind this winter the spring of last year placed until here of the rigidities unknown,
orchards that destroy, vineyards, tender and innumerable trees and plants. It
puts each to speaking of the year 1834, when such skin of cold that
to this day it is known as Black Friday in Kentucky; and it gave me
you cause to say to Georgian a history my grandfather had told me, of as
a night in the wild region the time grew so terrible that the wild one
beasts went out some forests to protect himself/herself/themselves around the boxes
of the pioneers, and as him you/he/she woke up by them fighting and crowding himself/herself/itself
for places against the warm walls and fireplace-angles. If he had had
opened his/her door and it walked to on all four again in bed, it is probable that he would have had soon a
confuses on a side of his/her hearth and a bear on the other, with a
dormant wild-cat on the hearth among, and with the thin-skinned buck
it damages that shivers out as really as if theirs had all the human beings and states.
Such spring, with his/her destruction of seed-being born and to walnut-tree-feel
vegetation, followed from a winter that it seals under ice what can have