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"If you can recollect the blizzard that Roscoe Conkling went down in

one March day in the streets of New York, it will give you the date;

possibly call to your ot through the whole winter without a single tie-up of

consequence until March

"Thewas still as June When the sky went heavy at noon it

lookedshower than a snow-stor they were flying a black flag splashed

with a red centre I had not seen it before for years, and I asked for

ploughs on every train out after two o'clock

"Even then there was no wickedness abroad; it was co quiet as apple-blossoms Toward four o'clock

I left the office for the roundhouse, and got just about half-way

across the yard when the wind veered like a scared semaphore I had

left the depot in a snow-storm; I reached the roundhouse in a blizzard

"There was no tiet back to the keys I telephoned

orders over from the house, and the boys burned the wires, east and

west, arnings When the ent into the north that day at

four o'clock, it wasthe