Silver Thaw
silver thaw n My father used to tell me the following story. When the first Irish immigrants came to Nfld they came expecting to find silver growing on trees. Some how they had heard that this was the case. When they come however the silver on the trees was nothing more than Silver Thaw, an ice coat...
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Language: | English |
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1971
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/53245 |
| Summary: | silver thaw n My father used to tell me the following story. When the first Irish immigrants came to Nfld they came expecting to find silver growing on trees. Some how they had heard that this was the case. When they come however the silver on the trees was nothing more than Silver Thaw, an ice coating which covers the trees when the temperature suddenly falls on a country-side which is covered with a dense fog. DNE-cit JH 6/71 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 2 Used I GLITTER, SILVER FROST. |
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