New Year

More snow came before New Year's, and the harbor froze over, but the gulf still was free, beyond the white, imprisoned fields.

If we did not have a white Christmas we had a white New Year. Midway between the two came a heavy snowfall.

"Did you propose to her that we should be married in the first week of the New Year?"

For some people Christmas and the New Year are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen's horses it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest.

- A Canadian Trapper.-A Freeman of the Forest- An Iroquois Hunter.- Winter on the Columbia.-Festivities of New Year.

"And I you a happy New Year," responded the Second Blighted Being, with the accent of a penitent accordeon.

From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.

Lord send we may be coming to something better in the New Year nigh upon us!'

Layamon recalls Merlin's words, "the which were sooth, that an Arthur should yet come the English to help." The hope of Tennyson is different, not that the old will return, but that the new will take its place, for "the old order changeth yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways." The old sorrows vanish "into light," and the new sun ever rises bringing in the new year.

Vincy's, where, on New Year's Day, there was a party, to which Mr.

A Happy New Year to you all, my dearest family, which of course includes Mr.

"Master, will you permit me to wish you a happy New Year?"