The Breath of the Snow

The Breath of the Snow

Narrator reflects on the weather; autumn and the coming of winter in Scotland; recounts neighbourhood gossip conveyed by his housekeeper Peggy ; [116] “That, you see, is the way a woman’s eye beholds the changes coming.”

Prose by John Macleay

Headpiece and tailpiece by Nellie Baxter, Marion A. Mason, and Annie Mackie

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Autumn 1895

Public Domain

Source: 1) Ryerson University Library Archives and Special Collections; 2) Private Collection (Dennis Denisoff)

Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities

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30 October 2017, ljk