It was a clear, cold day and the snow-covered fields and meadows sparkled in the sunshine.
"If I were a gypsy by birth, as well as by inclination," declared Tom, as they trudged gayly along, "I should take to the road in the early spring, and never see a roof again until cold weather." "But being a member of a respectable family and about to enter college, you have to sleep in a bed under cover ?" added David.
"It's partly that," said Tom, "and partly the cold weather that is responsible for my good behavior two thirds of the year.

If I lived in a warm climate all the year around, every respectable notion I had would melt away in a week and I'd take to the open forever." "I have never been in the woods in the winter time," said Anne.

"Are they very beautiful ?" "One of the finest sights in the world," cried Tom enthusiastically, his wholesome face glowing from his exercise.
Just then they climbed an old stone wall and entered a forest known as "Upton Wood," which covered an area of ten miles or more in length and several miles across.
"It is beautiful," said Anne as she gazed up and down the wooded aisles carpeted in white.

"It is like a great cathedral.

I could almost kneel and pray at one of these snow covered stumps.