← IT WAS a bitter winter. The stormy weather was followed by sleet and snow, and then by a hard frost which did not break till well into February. 🔊
← Rations, reduced in December, were reduced again in February, and lanterns in the stalls were forbidden to save oil. 🔊
← One afternoon in late February a warm, rich, appetising scent, such as the animals had never smelt before, wafted itself across the yard from the little brew−house, which had been disused in Jones's time, and which stood beyond the kitchen. 🔊