THE COMING OF SPRING 



a warm Feb'ury and that started 'em up rash- 

 like ; then along in early March it froze so hard 

 it nearly killed the 'coons in their holes, and be- 

 fore those cabbages got their courage and their 



RED WAKE ROBIN 



blood up again, Arbutus was out, and Wake 

 Robins and Shadbush, and a different sort o' 

 Violet for every finger on your hand! You see, 

 it depends on the kind o' season we get and the 

 way things lie to the sun, beside the bent of their 

 own natures. 



"Take birds, now, and they come up to time 



