A Pneumatic Calendar 



a month, is not frozen to the heart, but 

 feels a little faintest pulse-beat, and sends 

 instant news of it to her friends. 



Almost any one may notice, I am sure, 

 a difference between the sounds of the two 

 winter winds for there are two, as I 

 have indicated. The first wind is pain 

 fully sharp and strained, and seems pitched 

 in a minor key. The second is rounder and 

 fuller and more resonant, with a certain 

 robust quality, and rings out plainly in a 

 major key. 



The March wind, we might say, is the 

 answer to the February wind's hopeful ques 

 tion, the absolute and jubilant confirmation 

 of its rumor. The March wind is the most 

 positive of all winds in the pneumatic cal 

 endar, and no one questions his ability to 

 identify it, no matter under what circum 

 stances it may be heard. He is a messenger, 

 this March wind, who rides bareback and 

 standing a string of a hundred horses, and 

 sweeps more marvelously around the ring 

 of the world than any spangled equestrian 

 around his circle of sawdust. The roar of 

 his passage and his hearty, reasssuring shout 

 make the house rock; and when he is off 

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