WILD LIFE OF ORCHARD AND FIELD 



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IN MARCH WEATHER 



ARCH is not the most pleasant 

 month in the year for a walk in 

 the fields or woods, yet it is not 

 wholly without attraction to the 

 lover of rural scenes, and has 

 the advantage of concentrating 

 his attention upon a few things. 

 There is now ordinarily neither 

 the picturesqueness of the snowy 

 winter landscape frozen into si- 

 lence and immobility, nor the 

 beauty and luxuriance of sum- 

 mer. Yet a sunny day offers 

 much to the eye that is inspir- 

 ing : it is worth while to examine 

 how Nature spends her leisure. 

 The season is neutral-tinted, 



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