Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 343
et, onethousand feet from the summit of Mt. Blanc, in France,and on the morning of July 4, at six oclock, we startedon our perilous journey upward. Above us hung a mighty snow-drift, and our Swissguide told us, Sprechen ist silber aber sweigen istgelt (Speech is silver but silence is gold), for… … TREES IN FEBRUARY. BY RALIH MANNY, AGE 14. (SILVER BADGE. ) That last hour of climbing I will never forget. Theair was so thin that we could scarcely breathe. Weall felt exceedingly drowsy, but we knew that if weclosed our eyes for one instant, we should never openthem again, because the intense…
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