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Winter
Snow drifts in
to rest among our short, practical sentences. There are new kinds of cold to learn, new kinds of clothes and talk. As the bus winds up the children practise their snow vocabulary: Ridge Run The Boulevard High Traverse Tom’s Drop Wedding Knob Cross Roads Easy Off Shirt Front Escalator Wind Swept High Traverse Powder Bank Sun Run Lower Sutton Snow Mat Platter The Chair At night, a quiet horse, white as you-know-what, moves out from the trees to shadow us down the road.
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