A SPRING RELISH 



lunches for the young chick. When the 

 spider, or the wasp, or the carpenter bee, 

 or the sand hornet lays an egg in a cell, 

 and deposits food near it for the young 

 when hatched, it does just what nature 

 does in every kernel of corn or wheat, or 

 bean, or nut. Around or within the cliit or 

 germ, she stores food for the young plant. 

 Upon this it feeds till the root takes hold 

 of the soil and draws sustenance from 

 thence. The bud is rooted in the branch, 

 and draws its sustenance from the milk 

 of the pulpy cambium layer beneath the 

 bark. 



Another pleasant feature of spring, which 

 I have not mentioned, is the full streams. 

 Riding across the country one bright day 

 in March, I saw and felt, as if for the first 

 time, what an addition to the satisfaction 

 one has in the open air at this season are 

 the clear, full watercourses. They come 

 to the front, as it were, and lure and hold 

 the eye. There are no weeds, or grasses, 

 or foliage to hide them ; they are full to 

 the brim, and fuller ; they catch and reflect 

 the sunbeams, and are about the only ob- 

 jects of life and motion in nature. The 

 trees stand so still, the fields are so hushed 



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