An Experiment in Scotch

Dark spruce for­est frowned on either side of the frozen water­way. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white cov­er­ing of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and omi­nous, in the fad­ing light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a des­o­la­tion, life­less, …