The morning came, its clear blue bringing an assurance that it was March to those places lying in lonely beneath a smiling sky. It whispered that the winter was passed and that spring had come. Soon the snow would melt and the earth would and pulse with vernal activity, and it would be impossible not to rejoice with Nature.  
The snow thickened into a grey shining crust under the warm rays of the sun, to deepen into blue where the shadows fell. The fir-trees, shaggy and formidable, seemed especially and welcoming to the tide of sunlight that flowed to their feet, and lay there collected in the little hollows about their roots. The woodpecker could be heard amidst the pines, and daws, tomtits and bullfinches carolled merrily as they spread their wings and their plumage in the sun. The pines their , , exhilarating odour.
 
The wolf lay under cover all day. His bed was bestrewn with decaying and overgrown with . He rested his head on his paws, gazing solemnly before him with small tear-stained eyes; he lay there motionless, feeling a great weariness and . Around him was a thick cluster of firs overspread with snow.
 
Twice the old wolf raised his head, opened his wide and gave a bitter ; then his eyes grew dim, their ferocity died down, and he wagged his tail like a

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