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climate; would that the long frost of art 

 patronage would give way sometimes like- 

 wise. 



A solitary black-headed bunting has been 

 the only strange visitor to us during this 



frost - ' G. D. L. 



P.S. As far as I can see the thrushes 

 are the only birds that eat the snails that I 

 turn out. 



