"Wife," said Mr. Lindsey, after a fit of silence, "see what a quantity of snow the children have brought in on their feet! It has made quite a puddle here before the stove. Pray tell Dora to bring some towels and sop it up!" Transcriber's Note Illustration descriptions in curly brackets have been added by the transcriber for the convenience of the reader. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Snow-Image, by Nathaniel Hawthorne