Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
VERY early in the reign of Queen Victoria there lived near a large town in Devonshire a farmer named Marlowe, a prosperous, well-to-do man, with a thrifty, good-tempered wife and half a dozen children. Mr. Marlowe owned his farm, which was a large one; and in those good old ti...
VERY early in the reign of Queen Victoria there lived near a large town in Devonshire a farmer named Marlowe, a prosperous, well-to-do man, with a thrifty, good-tempered wife an...
2. CHAPTER II.THE young Marlowes built up not only a snow-man, but a house of snow. Not that they finished it that day, but they began it in an empty corner of the rick-yard. When it grew too...
3. CHAPTER III.ALL that night the snow fell thick and fast, and by the time the boys got up, on the ringing of the usual bell, every trace of walk and flower-bed was covered up deep in the gar...
4. part I'm coming to now is burnt in. There has never been a moment sinceit happened that I couldn't have told it every word, and so it will be till God takes me home. Much of what I have told you I had partly forgotten, until I began to think it ove...
5. CHAPTER IV.IT froze hard all night, and the boys were able to go to school next day, their father desiring them to keep together, not to leave the road, and to come home at once when schoo...
6. CHAPTER V.THE snow still lay deep all over the country next day, but it was hard and dry, so the boys went to school as usual. When they assembled in the evening for supper, old Jasper wa...