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 "CALX" AND EECALCITRATION. 



A LONG, long time what a dreary time is Winter! 

 Well may all Christendom have lent its comfortable 

 efforts through ages past, with a long and a strong 

 pull arid a pull altogether, to give a point and a zest, 

 and a time of almost legislated conviviality, in the 

 Christmas fireside, and good fellowship, by way of 

 indoor barricade, a sort of jovial rebellion, against 

 the long despotism of Jack Frost! It is hard to 

 convey an adequate idea of the bounding pleasure 

 with which after watching, month after month 

 unchanged, the rugged, uncouth results of that piece 

 of autumn workmanship lately described I saw at 

 last the wholesome-looking combination of such a 

 heterogeneous variety of earths that had lain ice- 

 bound, as if for perpetual and stereotyped ugliness, 

 now melting down, under the genial influences of 

 Spring and that blessed pair of harrows, into what 



