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typing test 56

created Jan 23rd 2020, 11:22 by DeepakKumar1943849


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336 words
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Winter in the country without snow is like a summer without the rose. Snow is Winter's speciality, its crowning glory, its last exquisite grace. Snow comes naturally in Winter, as foliage come in Summer; but although one may have been familiar with it during forty seasons, it always takes one with a certain pleased surprise and sense of strangeness. In each Winter the falling of the first snowflake is an event to lay hold the imagination. A child does not ordinarily take notice of the coming of leaves and flowers, but it will sit at a window for an hour, watching the descent of the dazzling apparition, with odd thoughts and fancies in the little brain. Snow attracts the child just as the plumage of some rare and foreign bird would. The most prosaic of mortals, when he comes downstairs of a morning, and finds a new soft, white world, instead of the hard, familiar black one is conscious of some obscure feeling of pleasure, the springs of which he might find it difficult to explain. I do not care much for snow in town; but in the country it is ever a marvel. It wipes out all boundary lines and distinctions between fields; it clothes the skeltons of trees with a pure wonder; through the strangely transfigured landscape the streams run black as ink and without a sound; and over all the cold blue frosty heavens smiles as if in very pleasure at its work.
    Somehow the season seems to infuse a spirit of jollity into everything. As I walk about I fancy the men I meet, look ruddier and healthier; that they talk in louder and cheerier tones; and that their chests heave with a sincerer laughter. They are more charitable, I know. Winterb inds "earthborn companions and fellow-mortals" together, from man to redbreast; and interior domestic life takes a new charm from the strange pallor outside. The good creature Fire feels exhilarated, and licks with its pliant tongue, as if pleased and flattered.

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