Excerpt from Land at Last, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel; Making for Shore Round that it froze again. Cutlers who had been gazing with a melancholy air on the placards Skates in their window, and had determined on removing them, as a bad joke against them selves, decided on letting them remain. Boys who had been delighted in the morning at the Sight of the snow, and proportionately chopfallen towards middle-day at the sight of the thaw, had plucked up again and seen visions of snowballing matches, slides on the gutters, and, most delicious of all, omnibus-horses both down at once on the slippery road. Homeward-bound City clerks, their day's work over, shivered in the omnibuses and told each other how they were afraid it had come at last, and reminded each other of what the newspapers had said about the flocks of wild geese and other signs of a hard winter, and moaned Iugubriously about the advanced price of coals and the difficulties of locomotion certain to be couse quent on the frost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.