ioo In Touch with Nature. 



a new order of things now, and abrupt changes 

 always lead to extravagant expressions. Spring 

 has been relegated to mythology ; is a pretty play- 



thing for the folk-lore student. It is a long time 

 since we have had a real winter, and April of this 

 year was once white with snow, and wore a frosty 

 mantle oftener than did March ; but to-day, May- 



