F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Capitolo 11

a white sheet of his, at least three thumbs deep, covered the earth on
the morning of the 5. The time had changed during the night, and
now the air was acute and cold. Dark clouds, dismal they hung along the
horizon in the northeast, the distant hills were of relief acute and cold,
and a wind that cools whispered and sighed through the pruned trees.
Then the wind grew stronger and stronger, snow fell thicker and
faster, making fantastic figures in the air, dancing then and scudding
to the strength of the strong wind, and the beach closing opposed by sight.
The disposition of Nyack buried in a storm, and the Tappan Zee was in a storm. Snow
gone adrift through the roads, on the passages, on the houses and it put
night-beret on the tops of mountain. Snow danced in cracks in the roads and
through fields, and it sent the traveller to the inn for refuge. Lowing
bovine livestock they looked for the barn-enclosure for refuge, or it crowded together under the
protection of some hay-battery, covered with snow. Night came, and he/she anchors the snow
you fall, and the wind blew in all of its fury.

It was on that cold tempestuous night that a bright light strength has been,
seen burning in the small house where Hanz Toodleburg lived. The storm
you/he/she had shaken his/her beginning frame in the morning;  and the windows now beat,
discordant sounds were felt on the porch, sighed of the wind through the
cracks and excellent snow cracked in under the door and through the
latch-hole, and he launched in few it goes adrift on the floor. Nyack was
buried in a storm how evening. There was an old clock on the
mantle-piece, and it kept on working, and its check marks could be felt above
the storm. And the bright fire of oak in the great hearth threw
shades that have fluttered on the great first to appear, and the wheels and the
festoons of dried apples and the pumpkins that have hung from the rays
aloft. And the old Deacon, the look-dog faithful disposition wound on on the
hearth-stone of flag.

The old clock had almost marked the time of midnight as Hanz it came out of