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The Snow-Image, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Title: The Snow-Image A Childish Miracle
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Illustrator: Marcus Waterman
Release Date: October 31, 2009 [EBook #30376]
Language: English
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[Illustration: THE SNOW-IMAGE New York: James G. Gregory.]
THE SNOW-IMAGE:
A CHILDISH MIRACLE.
BY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
With Illustrations by Marcus Waterman.
NEW YORK: JAMES G. GREGORY, 540, BROADWAY. M DCCC LXIV.
C. A. ALVORD, STEREOTYPER & PRINTER, NEW YORK.
[Illustration: {Violet and Peony put the finishing touches to the snow girl}]
The Snow-Image:
A CHILDISH MIRACLE.
One afternoon of a cold winter's day, when the sun shone forth with chilly brightness, after a long storm, two children asked leave of their mother to run out and play in the new-fallen snow. The elder child was a little girl, whom, because she was of a tender and modest disposition, and was thought to be very beautiful,