...Edmund stepped out into the snow - but it was really only slush by now - and began helping the dwarf to get the sledge out of the muddy hole it had got into. And now the snow was really melting in earnest and patches of green grass were beginning to appear in every direction.
Unless you have looked at a world of snow as long as Edmund had been looking at it, you will hardly be able to imagine what a relief those green patches were after the endless white. Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller. Every moment more and more of the trees shook off their robes of snow. Soon, wherever you looked, instead of white shapes you saw the dark green of firs or the black prickly branches of bare oaks and beeches and elms. Then the mist turned from white to gold and presently cleared away altogether. Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down on to the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops.
Soon there were more wonderful things happening...
...a strange grey dustsheet appeared all down the stairs...
...and the man finally arrived and started putting in new windows!
Yay for new windows! And yay for the street scene. It's fun to see what a little bit of your world looks like.
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