d was wholly kind.

The wind blew down the valley from the north. The snow-horses went
racing over the wrinkled ice, over the Don Flats, and over the marsh
toward the lake, white, for they were driven snow, but on them,
scattered dark, were riding plumy fragments of partridge ruffs--the
famous rainbow ruffs. And they rode on the winter wind that night, away
and away to the south, over the dark and boisterous lake, as they rode
in the gloom of his Mad Moon flight, riding and riding on till they were
engulfed, the last trace of the last of the Don Valley race.

For now no partridge comes to Castle Frank. Its wood-birds miss the
martial spring salute, and in Mud Creek Ravine the old pine drumlog,
since unused, has rotted in silence away.

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