Excerpt from Peter and Polly in Winter Peter Howe is'a. Little boy. Polly is his Sister; She is older than Peter. They live in a White house. The house is on a hill. It is not in the city. It is in the country. There are no houses close about it. But there are trees and fields around it. In summer these fields are green. In winter the snow covers them. The fields and the hills are as white as the house. Then there is fun playing in the snow. Peter likes to watch the snowflakes. He calls them white butterflies. But he knows what they are. His friend, the Story Lady, told him. They are just frozen clouds. Peter said to her, I think they are prettier than raindrops. They can sail about in the air, too. Raindrops cannot. I like winter better than summer. It Will be winter soon, Peter, said the Story Lady. But many things must happen first. The birds must fly away. The leaves must turn red and yellow. Then they will fall and you can rake them into heaps. We will go to the woods for nuts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.