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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Cold Snap + 1898 + +Author: Edward Bellamy + +Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22715] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COLD SNAP *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE COLD SNAP + +By Edward Bellamy + +1898 + + +In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either +extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense +of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling +additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any +slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind +out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what +if it should? Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own +endurance, the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to +cause a feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising +or falling mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by +sufferance it is that man exists at all on the earth is rather forcibly +borne in upon the mind at such times. The spaces above and below zero +are indefinite. + +I have to take my vacations as the fluctuations of a rather exacting +business permit, and so it happened that I was, with my wife, passing a +fortnight in the coldest part of winter at the family homestead in New +England. The ten previous days had been very cold, and the cold had "got +into the house," which means that it had so penetrated and chilled the +very walls and timbers that a cold day now took hold of us as it had not +earlier in the season. Finally there came a day that was colder than any +before it. The credit of discovering and first asserting that it was the +coldest day of the season is due to myself,--no slight distinction in +the country, where the weather is always a more prominent topic than +in the city, and the weather-wise are accordingly esteemed. Every one +hastened to corroborate this verdict with some piece of evidence. Mother +said that the frost had not gone off the kitchen window nearest the +stove in all the day, and that was a sign. The sleighs and sledges as +they went by in the road creaked on the snow, so that we heard them +through the double windows, and that was a sign; while the teamsters +swung their benumbed arms like the sails of a windmill to keep up the +circulation, and the frozen vapor puffed out from the horses' nostrils +in a manner reminding one of the snorting coursers in sensational +pictures. The schoolboys on their way from school did not stop to play, +and that was a sign. No women had been seen on the street since noon. +Young men, as they hurried past on the peculiar high-stepping trot +of persons who have their hands over their ears, looked strangely +antiquated with their mustaches and beards all grizzled with the frost. + +Toward dusk I took a short run to the post-office. I was well wrapped +up, but that did not prevent me from having very singular sensations +before I got home. The air, as I stepped out from cover, did not seem +like air at all, but like some almost solid medium, whose impact was +like a blow. It went right through my overcoat at the first assault, and +nosed about hungrily for my little spark of vital heat. A strong wind +with the flavor of glaciers was blowing straight from the pole. How +inexpressibly bleak was the aspect of the leaden clouds that were banked +up around the horizon! I shivered as I looked at the sullen masses. The +houses seemed little citadels against the sky. I had not taken fifty +steps before my face stiffened into a sort of mask, so that it hurt +me to move the facial muscles. I came home on an undignified run, +experiencing a lively sense of the inadequacy of two hands to protect +two ears and a nose. Did the Creator intend man to inhabit high +latitudes? + +At nightfall father, Bill, and Jim, the two latter being my younger +brothers, arrived from their offices, each in succession declaring, with +many "whews" and "ughs," that it was by all odds the coldest night yet. +Undeniably we all felt proud of it, too. A spirited man rather welcomes +ten or fifteen degrees extra, if so be they make the temperature +superlatively low; while he would very likely grumble at a much less +positive chilliness coupled with the disheartening feeling that he was +enduring nothing extraordinary. The general exaltation of spirit +and suspension of the conventionalities for the time being, which an +extraordinarily, hot or cold snap produces in a community, especially in +the country, is noteworthy. During that run of mine to the post-office +every man I met grinned confidentially, as if to say, "We 're hearty +fellows to stand it as we do." We regarded each other with an increase +of mutual respect. That sense of fellowship which springs up between +those associated in an emergency seemed to dispense with ordinary +formalities, and neighbors with whom I had not a bowing acquaintance +fairly beamed on me as we passed. + +After tea Ella (Ella was a sister) got the evening paper out of +somebody's overcoat, and was running it over in the dainty, skimming +fashion peculiar to the gentler sex when favoring the press with their +attention. It reminds one of sea-birds skimming the water, and anon +diving for a tidbit. She read aloud: "Old Prob. reports another cold +wave on the way East. It will probably reach the New England States this +evening. The thermometers along its course range from 40° below zero +at Fort Laramie, to 38° in Omaha, 31° in Chicago, and 30° in Cleveland. +Numerous cases of death by freezing are reported. Our readers will do +well to put an extra shovelful on the furnace overnight." + +"Don't forget that, Jim," said father. + +A gentleman friend called to take Ella out to a concert or something +of the sort. Her mother was for having her give it up on account of the +cold. But it so happens that young people, who, having life before them, +can much better afford than their elders to forego particular pleasures, +are much less resigned to doing so. The matter was compromised by piling +so many wraps upon her that she protested it was like being put to bed. +But, before they had been gone fifteen minutes, they were back again, +half frozen. It had proved so shockingly cold they had not dared to +keep on, and persuaded themselves accordingly that the entertainment had +probably been postponed. The streets were entirely deserted; not even a +policeman was visible, and the chilled gas in the street lamps gave but +a dull light. + +Ella proposed to give us our regular evening treat of music, but found +the corner of the room where the melodeon stood too cold. Generally the +room is warm in every part, and Jim got upbraided for keeping a poor +fire. But he succeeded in proving that it was better than common; the +weather was the matter. As the evening wore on, the members of the +family gradually edged around the register, finally radiating from it as +a centre like the spokes of a wheel, of which the collected feet of the +group made the hub. + +My wife is from the Southern States; and the huge cold of the North had +been a new and rather terrifying experience to her. She had been growing +nervous all the evening, as the signs and portents of the weather +accumulated. She was really half frightened. + +"Aren't you afraid it will get so cold it will never be able to get warm +again,--and then what would become of us?" she asked. + +Of course we laughed at her, but I think her fears infected me with +a slight, vague anxiety, as the evidences of extraordinary and still +increasing cold went on multiplying. I had so far gotten over my bravado +earlier in the evening that I should have been secretly relieved if the +thermometer had taken a turn. + +At length, one by one, the members of the family, with an anticipatory +shiver over the register, went to their rooms, and were doubtless in bed +in the shortest possible time, and I fear without saying their prayers. +Finally my wife suggested that we had better go before we got too cold +to do so. + +The bedroom was shockingly cold. Going to bed is a test of character. +I pride myself on the fact that generally, even when my room is cold, +I can, with steady nerve and resolute hand, remove the last habiliment, +and without undignified precipitation reach for and indue the nocturnal +garment, I admit, however, that on this occasion I gave way to a weak +irresolution at the critical instant and shivered for some moments in +constantly increasing demoralization, before I could make up my mind +to the final change. Then ensued the slow and gradual conquest of the +frozen bed to a tolerable warmth, a result attained only by clever +strategic combinations of bedclothes and the most methodical policy. As +I lay awake, I heard the sides of the house crack in the cold. "What," +said I to myself with a shiver, "should I do if anything happened that +required me to get up and dress again?" It seemed to me I should be +capable of letting a man die in the next room for need of succor. +Being of an imaginative temperament, not to feel prepared for possible +contingencies is for me to feel guilty and miserable. The last thing +I remember before dropping off to sleep was solemnly promising my wife +never to trust ourselves North another winter. I then fell asleep and +dreamed of the ineffable cold of the interstellar spaces, which the +scientific people talk about. + +The next thing I was sensible of was a feeling of the most utter +discomfort I ever experienced. My whole body had become gradually +chilled through. I could feel the flesh rising in goose pimples at every +movement. What has happened? was my first thought. The bedclothes were +all there, four inches of them, and to find myself shivering under +such a pile seemed a reversal of the laws of nature. Shivering is an +unpleasant operation at best and at briefest; but when one has shivered +till the flesh is lame, and every quiver is a racking; aching pain, that +is something quite different from any ordinary shivering. My wife was +awake and in the same condition. What did I ever bring her to this +terrible country for? She had been lying as still as possible for an +hour or so, waiting till she should die or something; and feeling that +if she stirred she should freeze, as water near the freezing point +crystallizes when agitated. She said that when I had disturbed the +clothes by any movement, she had felt like hating me. We were both +almost scared, it must be confessed. Such an experience had never been +ours before. In voices muffled by the bedclothes we held dismal confab, +and concluded that we must make our way to the sitting-room and get over +the register. + +I have had my share of unpleasant duties to face in my life. I remember +how I felt at Spottsylvania when I stepped up and out from behind a +breastwork of fence rails, over which the bullets were whistling like +hailstones, to charge the enemy. Worse still, I remember how I felt at +one or two public banquets when I rose from my seat to reply to a toast, +and to meet the gaze of a hundred expectant faces with an overpowering +consciousness of looking like a fool, and of total inability to do or +say anything which would not justify the presumption. But never did an +act of my life call for so much of sheer will-power as stepping out of +that comfortless bed into that freezing room. It is a general rule in +getting up winter mornings that the air never proves so cold as was +anticipated while lying warm in bed. But it did this time, probably +because my system was deprived of all elasticity and power of reaction +by being so thoroughly chilled. Hastily donning in the dark what was +absolutely necessary, my poor wife and myself, with chattering teeth and +prickly bodies, the most thoroughly demoralized couple in history, ran +downstairs to the sitting-room. + +Much to our surprise, we found the gas lighted and the other members of +the family already gathered there, huddling over the register. I felt +a sinking at the heart as I marked the strained, anxious look on each +face, a look that asked what strange thing had come upon us. They had +been there, they said, for some time. Ella, Jim, and Bill, who slept +alone, had been the first to leave their beds. Then father and mother, +and finally my wife and I, had followed. Soon after our arrival there +was a fumbling at the door, and the two Irish girls, who help mother +keep house, put in their blue, pinched faces. They scarcely waited an +invitation to come up to the register. + +The room was but dimly lighted, for the gas, affected by the fearful +chill, was flowing slowly and threatened to go out. The gloom added to +the depressing effect of our strange situation. Little was said. The +actual occurrence of strange and unheard-of events excites very much +less wonderment than the account of them written or rehearsed. Indeed, +the feeling of surprise often seems wholly left out of the mental +experience of those who undergo or behold the most prodigious +catastrophes. The sensibility to the marvelous is the one of our +faculties which is, perhaps, the soonest exhausted by a strain. Human +nature takes naturally to miracles, after all. "What can it mean?" was +the inquiry a dozen times on the lips of each one of us, but beyond +that, I recall little that was said. Bill, who was the joker of the +family, had essayed a jest or two at first on our strange predicament, +but they had been poorly received. The discomfort was too serious, +and the extraordinary nature of the visitation filled every mind with +nameless forebodings and a great, unformed fear. + +We asked each other if our neighbors were all in the same plight with +ourselves. They must be, of course, and many of them far less prepared +to meet it. There might be whole families in the last extremity of cold +right about us. I went to the window, and with my knife scraped away +the rime of frost, an eighth of an inch thick, which obscured it, till +I could see out. A whitish-gray light was on the landscape. Every object +seemed still, with a quite peculiar stillness that might be called +intense. From the chimneys of some of the houses around thick columns of +smoke and sparks were pouring, showing that the fires were being crowded +below. Other chimneys showed no smoke at all. Here and there a dull +light shone from a window. There was no other sign of life anywhere. The +streets were absolutely empty. No one suggested trying to communicate +with other houses. This was a plight in which human concourse could +avail nothing. + +After piling all the coal on the furnace it would hold, the volume of +heat rising from the register was such as to singe the clothes of those +over it, while those waiting their turn were shivering a few feet off. +The men of course yielded the nearest places to the women, and, as +we walked briskly up and down in the room, the frost gathered on our +mustaches. The morning, we said, would bring relief, but none of us +fully believed it, for the strange experience we were enduring appeared +to imply a suspension of the ordinary course of nature. + +A number of cats and dogs, driven from their accustomed haunts by the +intense cold, had gathered under the windows, and there piteously moaned +and whined for entrance. + +Swiftly it grew colder. The iron casing of the register was cold in +spite of the volume of heat pouring through it. Every point or surface +of metal in the room was covered with a thick coating of frost. The +frost even settled upon a few filaments of cobweb in the corners of the +room which had escaped the housemaid's broom, and which now shone like +hidden sins in the day of judgment. The door-knob, mop-boards, and +wooden casings of the room glistened. We were so chilled that woolen was +as cold to the touch as wood or iron. There being no more any heat in +our bodies, the non-conducting quality of a substance was no appreciable +advantage. To avoid the greater cold near the floor, several of our +number got upon the tables, presenting, with their feet tucked under +them, an aspect that would have been sufficiently laughable under other +circumstances. But, as a rule, fun does not survive the freezing point. +Every few moments the beams of the house snapped like the timbers of a +straining ship, and at intervals the frozen ground cracked with a noise +like cannon,--the hyperborean earthquake. + +A ruddy light shone against the windows. Bill went and rubbed away the +ice. A neighbor's house was burning. It was one of those whose chimneys +were vomiting forth sparks when I had looked out before. There was +promise of an extensive conflagration. Nobody appeared in the streets, +and, as there were intervening houses, we could not see what became +of the inmates. The very slight interest which this threatening +conflagration aroused in our minds was doubtless a mark of the already +stupefying effect of the cold. Even our voices had become weak and +altered. + +The cold is a sad enemy to beauty. My poor wife and Ella, with their +pinched faces, strained, aching expression, red, rheumy eyes and noses, +and blue or pallid cheeks were sad parodies on their comely selves. +Other forces of nature have in them something the spirit of man can +sympathize with, as the wind, the waves, the sun; but there is something +terribly inhuman about the cold. I can imagine it as a congenial +principle brooding over the face of chaos in the aeons before light was. + +Hours had passed, it might have been years, when father said, "Let us +pray." He knelt down, and we all mechanically followed his example, as +from childhood up we had done at morning and evening. Ever before, the +act had seemed merely a fit and graceful ceremony, from which no one had +expected anything in particular to follow, or had experienced aught save +the placid reaction that commonly results from a devotional act. But +now the meaning so long latent became eloquent. The morning and evening +ceremony became the sole resource in an imminent and fearful emergency. +There was a familiar strangeness about the act under these circumstances +which touched us all. With me, as with most, something of the feeling +implied in the adage, "Familiarity breeds contempt," had impaired my +faith in the practical efficacy of prayer. How could extraordinary +results be expected from so common an instrumentality, and especially +from so ordinary and every-day a thing as family prayer? Our faith in +the present instance was also not a little lessened by the peculiar +nature of the visitation. In any ordinary emergency God might help us, +but we had a sort of dim apprehension that even He could not do anything +in such weather. So far as humbleness was concerned, there was no +lack of that. There are some inflictions which, although terrible, are +capable of stirring in haughty human hearts a rebellious indignation. +But to cold succumb soul and mind. It has always seemed to me that cold +would have broken down Milton's Satan. I felt as if I could grovel to be +vouchsafed a moment's immunity from the gripe of the savage frost. + +Owing to the sustaining power there is in habit, the participation in +family devotions proved strengthening to us all. In emergencies, we get +back from our habits the mental and moral vigor that first went to their +formation, and has since remained on interest. + +It is not the weakest who succumb first to cold, as was strikingly +proved in our experience. The prostration of the faculties may be +long postponed by the power of the will. All assaults on human nature, +whether of cold, exhaustion, terror, or any other kind, respect the +dignity of the mind, and await its capitulation before finally storming +the stronghold of life. I am as strong in physique as men average, but +I gave out before my mother. The voices of mother and Bill, as they took +counsel for our salvation, fell on my ears like an idle sound. This was +the crisis of the night. + +The next thing I knew, Bill was urging us to eat some beefsteak and +bread. The former, I afterward learned, he had got out of the pantry +and cooked over the furnace fire. It was about five o'clock, and we had +eaten nothing for nearly twelve hours. The general exhaustion of our +powers had prevented a natural appetite from making itself felt, but +mother had suggested that we should try food, and it saved us. It was +still fearfully cold, but the danger was gone as soon as we felt the +reviving effect of the food. An ounce of food is worth a pound of +blankets. Trying to warm the body from the outside is working at a +tremendous disadvantage. It was a strange picnic as, perched on chairs +and tables in the dimly lighted room, we munched our morsels, or warmed +the frozen bread over the register. After this, some of us got a little +sleep. + +I shall never forget my sensations when, at last, I looked out at the +eastern window and saw the rising sun. The effect was indeed peculiarly +splendid, for the air was full of particles of ice, and the sun had the +effect of shining through a mist of diamond dust. Bill had dosed us with +whiskey, and perhaps it had got into our heads, for I shouted, and my +wife cried. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Cold Snap + 1898 + +Author: Edward Bellamy + +Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22715] +Last Updated: December 17, 2012 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COLD SNAP *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h1> + THE COLD SNAP + </h1> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h2> + By Edward Bellamy <br /> <br /> 1898 + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either + extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense of + helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling + additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any + slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind + out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what if it + should? Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own endurance, + the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to cause a + feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising or falling + mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by sufferance it is + that man exists at all on the earth is rather forcibly borne in upon the + mind at such times. The spaces above and below zero are indefinite. + </p> + <p> + I have to take my vacations as the fluctuations of a rather exacting + business permit, and so it happened that I was, with my wife, passing a + fortnight in the coldest part of winter at the family homestead in New + England. The ten previous days had been very cold, and the cold had "got + into the house," which means that it had so penetrated and chilled the + very walls and timbers that a cold day now took hold of us as it had not + earlier in the season. Finally there came a day that was colder than any + before it. The credit of discovering and first asserting that it was the + coldest day of the season is due to myself,—no slight distinction in + the country, where the weather is always a more prominent topic than in + the city, and the weather-wise are accordingly esteemed. Every one + hastened to corroborate this verdict with some piece of evidence. Mother + said that the frost had not gone off the kitchen window nearest the stove + in all the day, and that was a sign. The sleighs and sledges as they went + by in the road creaked on the snow, so that we heard them through the + double windows, and that was a sign; while the teamsters swung their + benumbed arms like the sails of a windmill to keep up the circulation, and + the frozen vapor puffed out from the horses' nostrils in a manner + reminding one of the snorting coursers in sensational pictures. The + schoolboys on their way from school did not stop to play, and that was a + sign. No women had been seen on the street since noon. Young men, as they + hurried past on the peculiar high-stepping trot of persons who have their + hands over their ears, looked strangely antiquated with their mustaches + and beards all grizzled with the frost. + </p> + <p> + Toward dusk I took a short run to the post-office. I was well wrapped up, + but that did not prevent me from having very singular sensations before I + got home. The air, as I stepped out from cover, did not seem like air at + all, but like some almost solid medium, whose impact was like a blow. It + went right through my overcoat at the first assault, and nosed about + hungrily for my little spark of vital heat. A strong wind with the flavor + of glaciers was blowing straight from the pole. How inexpressibly bleak + was the aspect of the leaden clouds that were banked up around the + horizon! I shivered as I looked at the sullen masses. The houses seemed + little citadels against the sky. I had not taken fifty steps before my + face stiffened into a sort of mask, so that it hurt me to move the facial + muscles. I came home on an undignified run, experiencing a lively sense of + the inadequacy of two hands to protect two ears and a nose. Did the + Creator intend man to inhabit high latitudes? + </p> + <p> + At nightfall father, Bill, and Jim, the two latter being my younger + brothers, arrived from their offices, each in succession declaring, with + many "whews" and "ughs," that it was by all odds the coldest night yet. + Undeniably we all felt proud of it, too. A spirited man rather welcomes + ten or fifteen degrees extra, if so be they make the temperature + superlatively low; while he would very likely grumble at a much less + positive chilliness coupled with the disheartening feeling that he was + enduring nothing extraordinary. The general exaltation of spirit and + suspension of the conventionalities for the time being, which an + extraordinarily, hot or cold snap produces in a community, especially in + the country, is noteworthy. During that run of mine to the post-office + every man I met grinned confidentially, as if to say, "We 're hearty + fellows to stand it as we do." We regarded each other with an increase of + mutual respect. That sense of fellowship which springs up between those + associated in an emergency seemed to dispense with ordinary formalities, + and neighbors with whom I had not a bowing acquaintance fairly beamed on + me as we passed. + </p> + <p> + After tea Ella (Ella was a sister) got the evening paper out of somebody's + overcoat, and was running it over in the dainty, skimming fashion peculiar + to the gentler sex when favoring the press with their attention. It + reminds one of sea-birds skimming the water, and anon diving for a tidbit. + She read aloud: "Old Prob. reports another cold wave on the way East. It + will probably reach the New England States this evening. The thermometers + along its course range from 40° below zero at Fort Laramie, to 38° in + Omaha, 31° in Chicago, and 30° in Cleveland. Numerous cases of death by + freezing are reported. Our readers will do well to put an extra shovelful + on the furnace overnight." + </p> + <p> + "Don't forget that, Jim," said father. + </p> + <p> + A gentleman friend called to take Ella out to a concert or something of + the sort. Her mother was for having her give it up on account of the cold. + But it so happens that young people, who, having life before them, can + much better afford than their elders to forego particular pleasures, are + much less resigned to doing so. The matter was compromised by piling so + many wraps upon her that she protested it was like being put to bed. But, + before they had been gone fifteen minutes, they were back again, half + frozen. It had proved so shockingly cold they had not dared to keep on, + and persuaded themselves accordingly that the entertainment had probably + been postponed. The streets were entirely deserted; not even a policeman + was visible, and the chilled gas in the street lamps gave but a dull + light. + </p> + <p> + Ella proposed to give us our regular evening treat of music, but found the + corner of the room where the melodeon stood too cold. Generally the room + is warm in every part, and Jim got upbraided for keeping a poor fire. But + he succeeded in proving that it was better than common; the weather was + the matter. As the evening wore on, the members of the family gradually + edged around the register, finally radiating from it as a centre like the + spokes of a wheel, of which the collected feet of the group made the hub. + </p> + <p> + My wife is from the Southern States; and the huge cold of the North had + been a new and rather terrifying experience to her. She had been growing + nervous all the evening, as the signs and portents of the weather + accumulated. She was really half frightened. + </p> + <p> + "Aren't you afraid it will get so cold it will never be able to get warm + again,—and then what would become of us?" she asked. + </p> + <p> + Of course we laughed at her, but I think her fears infected me with a + slight, vague anxiety, as the evidences of extraordinary and still + increasing cold went on multiplying. I had so far gotten over my bravado + earlier in the evening that I should have been secretly relieved if the + thermometer had taken a turn. + </p> + <p> + At length, one by one, the members of the family, with an anticipatory + shiver over the register, went to their rooms, and were doubtless in bed + in the shortest possible time, and I fear without saying their prayers. + Finally my wife suggested that we had better go before we got too cold to + do so. + </p> + <p> + The bedroom was shockingly cold. Going to bed is a test of character. I + pride myself on the fact that generally, even when my room is cold, I can, + with steady nerve and resolute hand, remove the last habiliment, and + without undignified precipitation reach for and indue the nocturnal + garment, I admit, however, that on this occasion I gave way to a weak + irresolution at the critical instant and shivered for some moments in + constantly increasing demoralization, before I could make up my mind to + the final change. Then ensued the slow and gradual conquest of the frozen + bed to a tolerable warmth, a result attained only by clever strategic + combinations of bedclothes and the most methodical policy. As I lay awake, + I heard the sides of the house crack in the cold. "What," said I to myself + with a shiver, "should I do if anything happened that required me to get + up and dress again?" It seemed to me I should be capable of letting a man + die in the next room for need of succor. Being of an imaginative + temperament, not to feel prepared for possible contingencies is for me to + feel guilty and miserable. The last thing I remember before dropping off + to sleep was solemnly promising my wife never to trust ourselves North + another winter. I then fell asleep and dreamed of the ineffable cold of + the interstellar spaces, which the scientific people talk about. + </p> + <p> + The next thing I was sensible of was a feeling of the most utter + discomfort I ever experienced. My whole body had become gradually chilled + through. I could feel the flesh rising in goose pimples at every movement. + What has happened? was my first thought. The bedclothes were all there, + four inches of them, and to find myself shivering under such a pile seemed + a reversal of the laws of nature. Shivering is an unpleasant operation at + best and at briefest; but when one has shivered till the flesh is lame, + and every quiver is a racking; aching pain, that is something quite + different from any ordinary shivering. My wife was awake and in the same + condition. What did I ever bring her to this terrible country for? She had + been lying as still as possible for an hour or so, waiting till she should + die or something; and feeling that if she stirred she should freeze, as + water near the freezing point crystallizes when agitated. She said that + when I had disturbed the clothes by any movement, she had felt like hating + me. We were both almost scared, it must be confessed. Such an experience + had never been ours before. In voices muffled by the bedclothes we held + dismal confab, and concluded that we must make our way to the sitting-room + and get over the register. + </p> + <p> + I have had my share of unpleasant duties to face in my life. I remember + how I felt at Spottsylvania when I stepped up and out from behind a + breastwork of fence rails, over which the bullets were whistling like + hailstones, to charge the enemy. Worse still, I remember how I felt at one + or two public banquets when I rose from my seat to reply to a toast, and + to meet the gaze of a hundred expectant faces with an overpowering + consciousness of looking like a fool, and of total inability to do or say + anything which would not justify the presumption. But never did an act of + my life call for so much of sheer will-power as stepping out of that + comfortless bed into that freezing room. It is a general rule in getting + up winter mornings that the air never proves so cold as was anticipated + while lying warm in bed. But it did this time, probably because my system + was deprived of all elasticity and power of reaction by being so + thoroughly chilled. Hastily donning in the dark what was absolutely + necessary, my poor wife and myself, with chattering teeth and prickly + bodies, the most thoroughly demoralized couple in history, ran downstairs + to the sitting-room. + </p> + <p> + Much to our surprise, we found the gas lighted and the other members of + the family already gathered there, huddling over the register. I felt a + sinking at the heart as I marked the strained, anxious look on each face, + a look that asked what strange thing had come upon us. They had been + there, they said, for some time. Ella, Jim, and Bill, who slept alone, had + been the first to leave their beds. Then father and mother, and finally my + wife and I, had followed. Soon after our arrival there was a fumbling at + the door, and the two Irish girls, who help mother keep house, put in + their blue, pinched faces. They scarcely waited an invitation to come up + to the register. + </p> + <p> + The room was but dimly lighted, for the gas, affected by the fearful + chill, was flowing slowly and threatened to go out. The gloom added to the + depressing effect of our strange situation. Little was said. The actual + occurrence of strange and unheard-of events excites very much less + wonderment than the account of them written or rehearsed. Indeed, the + feeling of surprise often seems wholly left out of the mental experience + of those who undergo or behold the most prodigious catastrophes. The + sensibility to the marvelous is the one of our faculties which is, + perhaps, the soonest exhausted by a strain. Human nature takes naturally + to miracles, after all. "What can it mean?" was the inquiry a dozen times + on the lips of each one of us, but beyond that, I recall little that was + said. Bill, who was the joker of the family, had essayed a jest or two at + first on our strange predicament, but they had been poorly received. The + discomfort was too serious, and the extraordinary nature of the visitation + filled every mind with nameless forebodings and a great, unformed fear. + </p> + <p> + We asked each other if our neighbors were all in the same plight with + ourselves. They must be, of course, and many of them far less prepared to + meet it. There might be whole families in the last extremity of cold right + about us. I went to the window, and with my knife scraped away the rime of + frost, an eighth of an inch thick, which obscured it, till I could see + out. A whitish-gray light was on the landscape. Every object seemed still, + with a quite peculiar stillness that might be called intense. From the + chimneys of some of the houses around thick columns of smoke and sparks + were pouring, showing that the fires were being crowded below. Other + chimneys showed no smoke at all. Here and there a dull light shone from a + window. There was no other sign of life anywhere. The streets were + absolutely empty. No one suggested trying to communicate with other + houses. This was a plight in which human concourse could avail nothing. + </p> + <p> + After piling all the coal on the furnace it would hold, the volume of heat + rising from the register was such as to singe the clothes of those over + it, while those waiting their turn were shivering a few feet off. The men + of course yielded the nearest places to the women, and, as we walked + briskly up and down in the room, the frost gathered on our mustaches. The + morning, we said, would bring relief, but none of us fully believed it, + for the strange experience we were enduring appeared to imply a suspension + of the ordinary course of nature. + </p> + <p> + A number of cats and dogs, driven from their accustomed haunts by the + intense cold, had gathered under the windows, and there piteously moaned + and whined for entrance. + </p> + <p> + Swiftly it grew colder. The iron casing of the register was cold in spite + of the volume of heat pouring through it. Every point or surface of metal + in the room was covered with a thick coating of frost. The frost even + settled upon a few filaments of cobweb in the corners of the room which + had escaped the housemaid's broom, and which now shone like hidden sins in + the day of judgment. The door-knob, mop-boards, and wooden casings of the + room glistened. We were so chilled that woolen was as cold to the touch as + wood or iron. There being no more any heat in our bodies, the + non-conducting quality of a substance was no appreciable advantage. To + avoid the greater cold near the floor, several of our number got upon the + tables, presenting, with their feet tucked under them, an aspect that + would have been sufficiently laughable under other circumstances. But, as + a rule, fun does not survive the freezing point. Every few moments the + beams of the house snapped like the timbers of a straining ship, and at + intervals the frozen ground cracked with a noise like cannon,—the + hyperborean earthquake. + </p> + <p> + A ruddy light shone against the windows. Bill went and rubbed away the + ice. A neighbor's house was burning. It was one of those whose chimneys + were vomiting forth sparks when I had looked out before. There was promise + of an extensive conflagration. Nobody appeared in the streets, and, as + there were intervening houses, we could not see what became of the + inmates. The very slight interest which this threatening conflagration + aroused in our minds was doubtless a mark of the already stupefying effect + of the cold. Even our voices had become weak and altered. + </p> + <p> + The cold is a sad enemy to beauty. My poor wife and Ella, with their + pinched faces, strained, aching expression, red, rheumy eyes and noses, + and blue or pallid cheeks were sad parodies on their comely selves. Other + forces of nature have in them something the spirit of man can sympathize + with, as the wind, the waves, the sun; but there is something terribly + inhuman about the cold. I can imagine it as a congenial principle brooding + over the face of chaos in the aeons before light was. + </p> + <p> + Hours had passed, it might have been years, when father said, "Let us + pray." He knelt down, and we all mechanically followed his example, as + from childhood up we had done at morning and evening. Ever before, the act + had seemed merely a fit and graceful ceremony, from which no one had + expected anything in particular to follow, or had experienced aught save + the placid reaction that commonly results from a devotional act. But now + the meaning so long latent became eloquent. The morning and evening + ceremony became the sole resource in an imminent and fearful emergency. + There was a familiar strangeness about the act under these circumstances + which touched us all. With me, as with most, something of the feeling + implied in the adage, "Familiarity breeds contempt," had impaired my faith + in the practical efficacy of prayer. How could extraordinary results be + expected from so common an instrumentality, and especially from so + ordinary and every-day a thing as family prayer? Our faith in the present + instance was also not a little lessened by the peculiar nature of the + visitation. In any ordinary emergency God might help us, but we had a sort + of dim apprehension that even He could not do anything in such weather. So + far as humbleness was concerned, there was no lack of that. There are some + inflictions which, although terrible, are capable of stirring in haughty + human hearts a rebellious indignation. But to cold succumb soul and mind. + It has always seemed to me that cold would have broken down Milton's + Satan. I felt as if I could grovel to be vouchsafed a moment's immunity + from the gripe of the savage frost. + </p> + <p> + Owing to the sustaining power there is in habit, the participation in + family devotions proved strengthening to us all. In emergencies, we get + back from our habits the mental and moral vigor that first went to their + formation, and has since remained on interest. + </p> + <p> + It is not the weakest who succumb first to cold, as was strikingly proved + in our experience. The prostration of the faculties may be long postponed + by the power of the will. All assaults on human nature, whether of cold, + exhaustion, terror, or any other kind, respect the dignity of the mind, + and await its capitulation before finally storming the stronghold of life. + I am as strong in physique as men average, but I gave out before my + mother. The voices of mother and Bill, as they took counsel for our + salvation, fell on my ears like an idle sound. This was the crisis of the + night. + </p> + <p> + The next thing I knew, Bill was urging us to eat some beefsteak and bread. + The former, I afterward learned, he had got out of the pantry and cooked + over the furnace fire. It was about five o'clock, and we had eaten nothing + for nearly twelve hours. The general exhaustion of our powers had + prevented a natural appetite from making itself felt, but mother had + suggested that we should try food, and it saved us. It was still fearfully + cold, but the danger was gone as soon as we felt the reviving effect of + the food. An ounce of food is worth a pound of blankets. Trying to warm + the body from the outside is working at a tremendous disadvantage. It was + a strange picnic as, perched on chairs and tables in the dimly lighted + room, we munched our morsels, or warmed the frozen bread over the + register. After this, some of us got a little sleep. + </p> + <p> + I shall never forget my sensations when, at last, I looked out at the + eastern window and saw the rising sun. The effect was indeed peculiarly + splendid, for the air was full of particles of ice, and the sun had the + effect of shining through a mist of diamond dust. Bill had dosed us with + whiskey, and perhaps it had got into our heads, for I shouted, and my wife + cried. It was, at the end of the weary night, like the first sight of our + country's flag when returning from a foreign world. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cold Snap, by Edward Bellamy + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COLD SNAP *** + +***** This file should be named 22715-h.htm or 22715-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/7/1/22715/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Cold Snap + 1898 + +Author: Edward Bellamy + +Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22715] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COLD SNAP *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +THE COLD SNAP + +By Edward Bellamy + +1898 + + +In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either +extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense +of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling +additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any +slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind +out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what +if it should? Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own +endurance, the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to +cause a feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising +or falling mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by +sufferance it is that man exists at all on the earth is rather forcibly +borne in upon the mind at such times. The spaces above and below zero +are indefinite. + +I have to take my vacations as the fluctuations of a rather exacting +business permit, and so it happened that I was, with my wife, passing a +fortnight in the coldest part of winter at the family homestead in New +England. The ten previous days had been very cold, and the cold had "got +into the house," which means that it had so penetrated and chilled the +very walls and timbers that a cold day now took hold of us as it had not +earlier in the season. Finally there came a day that was colder than any +before it. The credit of discovering and first asserting that it was the +coldest day of the season is due to myself,--no slight distinction in +the country, where the weather is always a more prominent topic than +in the city, and the weather-wise are accordingly esteemed. Every one +hastened to corroborate this verdict with some piece of evidence. Mother +said that the frost had not gone off the kitchen window nearest the +stove in all the day, and that was a sign. The sleighs and sledges as +they went by in the road creaked on the snow, so that we heard them +through the double windows, and that was a sign; while the teamsters +swung their benumbed arms like the sails of a windmill to keep up the +circulation, and the frozen vapor puffed out from the horses' nostrils +in a manner reminding one of the snorting coursers in sensational +pictures. The schoolboys on their way from school did not stop to play, +and that was a sign. No women had been seen on the street since noon. +Young men, as they hurried past on the peculiar high-stepping trot +of persons who have their hands over their ears, looked strangely +antiquated with their mustaches and beards all grizzled with the frost. + +Toward dusk I took a short run to the post-office. I was well wrapped +up, but that did not prevent me from having very singular sensations +before I got home. The air, as I stepped out from cover, did not seem +like air at all, but like some almost solid medium, whose impact was +like a blow. It went right through my overcoat at the first assault, and +nosed about hungrily for my little spark of vital heat. A strong wind +with the flavor of glaciers was blowing straight from the pole. How +inexpressibly bleak was the aspect of the leaden clouds that were banked +up around the horizon! I shivered as I looked at the sullen masses. The +houses seemed little citadels against the sky. I had not taken fifty +steps before my face stiffened into a sort of mask, so that it hurt +me to move the facial muscles. I came home on an undignified run, +experiencing a lively sense of the inadequacy of two hands to protect +two ears and a nose. Did the Creator intend man to inhabit high +latitudes? + +At nightfall father, Bill, and Jim, the two latter being my younger +brothers, arrived from their offices, each in succession declaring, with +many "whews" and "ughs," that it was by all odds the coldest night yet. +Undeniably we all felt proud of it, too. A spirited man rather welcomes +ten or fifteen degrees extra, if so be they make the temperature +superlatively low; while he would very likely grumble at a much less +positive chilliness coupled with the disheartening feeling that he was +enduring nothing extraordinary. The general exaltation of spirit +and suspension of the conventionalities for the time being, which an +extraordinarily, hot or cold snap produces in a community, especially in +the country, is noteworthy. During that run of mine to the post-office +every man I met grinned confidentially, as if to say, "We 're hearty +fellows to stand it as we do." We regarded each other with an increase +of mutual respect. That sense of fellowship which springs up between +those associated in an emergency seemed to dispense with ordinary +formalities, and neighbors with whom I had not a bowing acquaintance +fairly beamed on me as we passed. + +After tea Ella (Ella was a sister) got the evening paper out of +somebody's overcoat, and was running it over in the dainty, skimming +fashion peculiar to the gentler sex when favoring the press with their +attention. It reminds one of sea-birds skimming the water, and anon +diving for a tidbit. She read aloud: "Old Prob. reports another cold +wave on the way East. It will probably reach the New England States this +evening. The thermometers along its course range from 40 deg. below zero +at Fort Laramie, to 38 deg. in Omaha, 31 deg. in Chicago, and 30 deg. in Cleveland. +Numerous cases of death by freezing are reported. Our readers will do +well to put an extra shovelful on the furnace overnight." + +"Don't forget that, Jim," said father. + +A gentleman friend called to take Ella out to a concert or something +of the sort. Her mother was for having her give it up on account of the +cold. But it so happens that young people, who, having life before them, +can much better afford than their elders to forego particular pleasures, +are much less resigned to doing so. The matter was compromised by piling +so many wraps upon her that she protested it was like being put to bed. +But, before they had been gone fifteen minutes, they were back again, +half frozen. It had proved so shockingly cold they had not dared to +keep on, and persuaded themselves accordingly that the entertainment had +probably been postponed. The streets were entirely deserted; not even a +policeman was visible, and the chilled gas in the street lamps gave but +a dull light. + +Ella proposed to give us our regular evening treat of music, but found +the corner of the room where the melodeon stood too cold. Generally the +room is warm in every part, and Jim got upbraided for keeping a poor +fire. But he succeeded in proving that it was better than common; the +weather was the matter. As the evening wore on, the members of the +family gradually edged around the register, finally radiating from it as +a centre like the spokes of a wheel, of which the collected feet of the +group made the hub. + +My wife is from the Southern States; and the huge cold of the North had +been a new and rather terrifying experience to her. She had been growing +nervous all the evening, as the signs and portents of the weather +accumulated. She was really half frightened. + +"Aren't you afraid it will get so cold it will never be able to get warm +again,--and then what would become of us?" she asked. + +Of course we laughed at her, but I think her fears infected me with +a slight, vague anxiety, as the evidences of extraordinary and still +increasing cold went on multiplying. I had so far gotten over my bravado +earlier in the evening that I should have been secretly relieved if the +thermometer had taken a turn. + +At length, one by one, the members of the family, with an anticipatory +shiver over the register, went to their rooms, and were doubtless in bed +in the shortest possible time, and I fear without saying their prayers. +Finally my wife suggested that we had better go before we got too cold +to do so. + +The bedroom was shockingly cold. Going to bed is a test of character. +I pride myself on the fact that generally, even when my room is cold, +I can, with steady nerve and resolute hand, remove the last habiliment, +and without undignified precipitation reach for and indue the nocturnal +garment, I admit, however, that on this occasion I gave way to a weak +irresolution at the critical instant and shivered for some moments in +constantly increasing demoralization, before I could make up my mind +to the final change. Then ensued the slow and gradual conquest of the +frozen bed to a tolerable warmth, a result attained only by clever +strategic combinations of bedclothes and the most methodical policy. As +I lay awake, I heard the sides of the house crack in the cold. "What," +said I to myself with a shiver, "should I do if anything happened that +required me to get up and dress again?" It seemed to me I should be +capable of letting a man die in the next room for need of succor. +Being of an imaginative temperament, not to feel prepared for possible +contingencies is for me to feel guilty and miserable. The last thing +I remember before dropping off to sleep was solemnly promising my wife +never to trust ourselves North another winter. I then fell asleep and +dreamed of the ineffable cold of the interstellar spaces, which the +scientific people talk about. + +The next thing I was sensible of was a feeling of the most utter +discomfort I ever experienced. My whole body had become gradually +chilled through. I could feel the flesh rising in goose pimples at every +movement. What has happened? was my first thought. The bedclothes were +all there, four inches of them, and to find myself shivering under +such a pile seemed a reversal of the laws of nature. Shivering is an +unpleasant operation at best and at briefest; but when one has shivered +till the flesh is lame, and every quiver is a racking; aching pain, that +is something quite different from any ordinary shivering. My wife was +awake and in the same condition. What did I ever bring her to this +terrible country for? She had been lying as still as possible for an +hour or so, waiting till she should die or something; and feeling that +if she stirred she should freeze, as water near the freezing point +crystallizes when agitated. She said that when I had disturbed the +clothes by any movement, she had felt like hating me. We were both +almost scared, it must be confessed. Such an experience had never been +ours before. In voices muffled by the bedclothes we held dismal confab, +and concluded that we must make our way to the sitting-room and get over +the register. + +I have had my share of unpleasant duties to face in my life. I remember +how I felt at Spottsylvania when I stepped up and out from behind a +breastwork of fence rails, over which the bullets were whistling like +hailstones, to charge the enemy. Worse still, I remember how I felt at +one or two public banquets when I rose from my seat to reply to a toast, +and to meet the gaze of a hundred expectant faces with an overpowering +consciousness of looking like a fool, and of total inability to do or +say anything which would not justify the presumption. But never did an +act of my life call for so much of sheer will-power as stepping out of +that comfortless bed into that freezing room. It is a general rule in +getting up winter mornings that the air never proves so cold as was +anticipated while lying warm in bed. But it did this time, probably +because my system was deprived of all elasticity and power of reaction +by being so thoroughly chilled. Hastily donning in the dark what was +absolutely necessary, my poor wife and myself, with chattering teeth and +prickly bodies, the most thoroughly demoralized couple in history, ran +downstairs to the sitting-room. + +Much to our surprise, we found the gas lighted and the other members of +the family already gathered there, huddling over the register. I felt +a sinking at the heart as I marked the strained, anxious look on each +face, a look that asked what strange thing had come upon us. They had +been there, they said, for some time. Ella, Jim, and Bill, who slept +alone, had been the first to leave their beds. Then father and mother, +and finally my wife and I, had followed. Soon after our arrival there +was a fumbling at the door, and the two Irish girls, who help mother +keep house, put in their blue, pinched faces. They scarcely waited an +invitation to come up to the register. + +The room was but dimly lighted, for the gas, affected by the fearful +chill, was flowing slowly and threatened to go out. The gloom added to +the depressing effect of our strange situation. Little was said. The +actual occurrence of strange and unheard-of events excites very much +less wonderment than the account of them written or rehearsed. Indeed, +the feeling of surprise often seems wholly left out of the mental +experience of those who undergo or behold the most prodigious +catastrophes. The sensibility to the marvelous is the one of our +faculties which is, perhaps, the soonest exhausted by a strain. Human +nature takes naturally to miracles, after all. "What can it mean?" was +the inquiry a dozen times on the lips of each one of us, but beyond +that, I recall little that was said. Bill, who was the joker of the +family, had essayed a jest or two at first on our strange predicament, +but they had been poorly received. The discomfort was too serious, +and the extraordinary nature of the visitation filled every mind with +nameless forebodings and a great, unformed fear. + +We asked each other if our neighbors were all in the same plight with +ourselves. They must be, of course, and many of them far less prepared +to meet it. There might be whole families in the last extremity of cold +right about us. I went to the window, and with my knife scraped away +the rime of frost, an eighth of an inch thick, which obscured it, till +I could see out. A whitish-gray light was on the landscape. Every object +seemed still, with a quite peculiar stillness that might be called +intense. From the chimneys of some of the houses around thick columns of +smoke and sparks were pouring, showing that the fires were being crowded +below. Other chimneys showed no smoke at all. Here and there a dull +light shone from a window. There was no other sign of life anywhere. The +streets were absolutely empty. No one suggested trying to communicate +with other houses. This was a plight in which human concourse could +avail nothing. + +After piling all the coal on the furnace it would hold, the volume of +heat rising from the register was such as to singe the clothes of those +over it, while those waiting their turn were shivering a few feet off. +The men of course yielded the nearest places to the women, and, as +we walked briskly up and down in the room, the frost gathered on our +mustaches. The morning, we said, would bring relief, but none of us +fully believed it, for the strange experience we were enduring appeared +to imply a suspension of the ordinary course of nature. + +A number of cats and dogs, driven from their accustomed haunts by the +intense cold, had gathered under the windows, and there piteously moaned +and whined for entrance. + +Swiftly it grew colder. The iron casing of the register was cold in +spite of the volume of heat pouring through it. Every point or surface +of metal in the room was covered with a thick coating of frost. The +frost even settled upon a few filaments of cobweb in the corners of the +room which had escaped the housemaid's broom, and which now shone like +hidden sins in the day of judgment. The door-knob, mop-boards, and +wooden casings of the room glistened. We were so chilled that woolen was +as cold to the touch as wood or iron. There being no more any heat in +our bodies, the non-conducting quality of a substance was no appreciable +advantage. To avoid the greater cold near the floor, several of our +number got upon the tables, presenting, with their feet tucked under +them, an aspect that would have been sufficiently laughable under other +circumstances. But, as a rule, fun does not survive the freezing point. +Every few moments the beams of the house snapped like the timbers of a +straining ship, and at intervals the frozen ground cracked with a noise +like cannon,--the hyperborean earthquake. + +A ruddy light shone against the windows. Bill went and rubbed away the +ice. A neighbor's house was burning. It was one of those whose chimneys +were vomiting forth sparks when I had looked out before. There was +promise of an extensive conflagration. Nobody appeared in the streets, +and, as there were intervening houses, we could not see what became +of the inmates. The very slight interest which this threatening +conflagration aroused in our minds was doubtless a mark of the already +stupefying effect of the cold. Even our voices had become weak and +altered. + +The cold is a sad enemy to beauty. My poor wife and Ella, with their +pinched faces, strained, aching expression, red, rheumy eyes and noses, +and blue or pallid cheeks were sad parodies on their comely selves. +Other forces of nature have in them something the spirit of man can +sympathize with, as the wind, the waves, the sun; but there is something +terribly inhuman about the cold. I can imagine it as a congenial +principle brooding over the face of chaos in the aeons before light was. + +Hours had passed, it might have been years, when father said, "Let us +pray." He knelt down, and we all mechanically followed his example, as +from childhood up we had done at morning and evening. Ever before, the +act had seemed merely a fit and graceful ceremony, from which no one had +expected anything in particular to follow, or had experienced aught save +the placid reaction that commonly results from a devotional act. But +now the meaning so long latent became eloquent. The morning and evening +ceremony became the sole resource in an imminent and fearful emergency. +There was a familiar strangeness about the act under these circumstances +which touched us all. With me, as with most, something of the feeling +implied in the adage, "Familiarity breeds contempt," had impaired my +faith in the practical efficacy of prayer. How could extraordinary +results be expected from so common an instrumentality, and especially +from so ordinary and every-day a thing as family prayer? Our faith in +the present instance was also not a little lessened by the peculiar +nature of the visitation. In any ordinary emergency God might help us, +but we had a sort of dim apprehension that even He could not do anything +in such weather. So far as humbleness was concerned, there was no +lack of that. There are some inflictions which, although terrible, are +capable of stirring in haughty human hearts a rebellious indignation. +But to cold succumb soul and mind. It has always seemed to me that cold +would have broken down Milton's Satan. I felt as if I could grovel to be +vouchsafed a moment's immunity from the gripe of the savage frost. + +Owing to the sustaining power there is in habit, the participation in +family devotions proved strengthening to us all. In emergencies, we get +back from our habits the mental and moral vigor that first went to their +formation, and has since remained on interest. + +It is not the weakest who succumb first to cold, as was strikingly +proved in our experience. The prostration of the faculties may be +long postponed by the power of the will. All assaults on human nature, +whether of cold, exhaustion, terror, or any other kind, respect the +dignity of the mind, and await its capitulation before finally storming +the stronghold of life. I am as strong in physique as men average, but +I gave out before my mother. The voices of mother and Bill, as they took +counsel for our salvation, fell on my ears like an idle sound. This was +the crisis of the night. + +The next thing I knew, Bill was urging us to eat some beefsteak and +bread. The former, I afterward learned, he had got out of the pantry +and cooked over the furnace fire. It was about five o'clock, and we had +eaten nothing for nearly twelve hours. The general exhaustion of our +powers had prevented a natural appetite from making itself felt, but +mother had suggested that we should try food, and it saved us. It was +still fearfully cold, but the danger was gone as soon as we felt the +reviving effect of the food. An ounce of food is worth a pound of +blankets. Trying to warm the body from the outside is working at a +tremendous disadvantage. It was a strange picnic as, perched on chairs +and tables in the dimly lighted room, we munched our morsels, or warmed +the frozen bread over the register. After this, some of us got a little +sleep. + +I shall never forget my sensations when, at last, I looked out at the +eastern window and saw the rising sun. The effect was indeed peculiarly +splendid, for the air was full of particles of ice, and the sun had the +effect of shining through a mist of diamond dust. Bill had dosed us with +whiskey, and perhaps it had got into our heads, for I shouted, and my +wife cried. 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