Chapter V 



RAINY WEATHER AND WRENS 



THE ''bad days'' that so frequently in- 

 terrupt the vernal tide during April 

 and early May in our climate, check- 

 ing it with the chill of winter, are after 

 all of no mean value because of the way 

 they accentuate by contrast the glory of 

 the others. Indeed, I have sometimes 

 thought that with fewer of them spring 

 might even grow monotonous. It would at 

 least fail to stir within us that pecuhar 

 sense of appreciative joy we inevitably 

 feel upon the sunlit morning — fresh, frag- 

 rant, blossomy — which sooner or later is 

 sure to follow what we counted perhaps a 

 disastrous spell of unseasonable weather. 



Furthermore, the abundant rains produce 

 a wealth of fohage and vegetation which, of 

 course, would otherwise be lacking. 



My attention was particularly attracted 



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