I saw that last winter with your predecessor , and farther back still with his predecessors ! They have all run away ! ' ' I do n't understand you , my friend , ' said the Snow-man . ` That thing up there is to teach me to run ? ' He meant the moon . ` Well , it certainly did run just now , for I saw it quite plainly over there , and now here it is on this side . ' ` You know nothing at all about it , ' said the yard-dog . ` Why , you have only just been made . The thing you see there is the moon ; the other thing you saw going down the other side was the sun . He will come up again tomorrow morning , and will soon teach you how to run away down the gutter . The weather is going to change ; I feel it already by the pain in my left hind-leg ; the weather is certainly going to change . ' ' I ca n't understand him , ' said the Snow-man ; ` but I have an idea that he is speaking of something unpleasant . That thing that glares so , and then disappears , the sun , as he calls it , is not my friend . I know that by instinct . ' ` Bow-wow ! ' barked the yard-dog , and walked three times round himself , and then crept into his kennel to sleep . The weather really did change . Towards morning a dense damp fog lay over the whole neighbourhood ; later on came an icy wind , which sent the frost packing . But when the sun rose , it was a glorious sight . The trees and shrubs were covered with rime , and looked like a wood of coral , and every branch was thick with long white blossoms .
The most delicate twigs , which are lost among the foliage in summer-time , came now into prominence , and it was like a spider 's web XXXXX glistening white .
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