Pretty soon it began to storm, and Mr. North Wind blew great clouds of snow around the little house in the Old Bramble Patch. And sometimes he whistled down the chimney till the little cricket in the woodbox shivered and wished it were Summer Time again.

Oh, Mr. North Wind blows so shrill,

Across the meadow from the hill

That little rabbits cuddle tight

Around the hearthstone, warm and bright,

Where now and then the cricket trills

Of lovely spring and daffodils.

LONELY TIMES

The old farm pump is frozen tight,

It must have happened in the night