CHAPTER XIII 



THE LAST DAY OF WINTER 



CCORDING to the almanac March 21st is 

 the last day of winter. The almanac is not 

 always to be trusted not for hay weather, 



or picnic weather, or sailing weather; but you can 

 5 always trust it for March 21st weather. Whatever 



the weather man at Washington predicts about it, 



'whatever comes, snow, sleet, slush, rain, wind, or 

 ifrogs and sunshine, March 21st is the last day 

 -of winter. 



The sun "crosses the line" that day ; spring 



crosses with him; and I cross over with the 



spring. 

 I Let it snow ! I have had winter enough. Let the 



wind rage ! It cannot turn back the sun ; it cannot 

 I blow away the "equinoctial line"; it cannot snow 

 {/under my determination to have done, here and 

 | now, with winter! 



', The sun crosses to my side of the Equator on the 

 />21st of March ; there is nothing in the universe that 

 can stop him. I cross over the line with him; and 

 ? there is nothing under the sun that can stop me. 

 ', When you want it to be spring, if you have the sun on 

 ('your side of the line you can have spring. Hitching 





