Day before yesterday in the morning I noticed out my window that the snowman had disappeared entirely. It took three full grown young people and a few other helpers three days to build him right after that snow that fell last of January, first of February. The ground there is probably more soaked than anywhere else in the park. They started out using plastic square milk crates packed with the snow, emptying them like bricks into the inner wall. Then they showed up with a ladder and wheel barrows full of snow, and when the bottom ball had taken shape it was time to start the trunk of the body. The snow was so solidly packed that they climbed up onto it to begin again with the snow bricks before arriving at the sculpting of the outer round layer.
Finally the head was placed, and other decorations for eyes, buttons, arms and hat. By then kids from all over the neighborhood wanted to see it, help carry snow and have their pictures taken with him, the tallest snowman in the world.
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Will the violets bloom more thickly on that spot than anywhere else?
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