312 GLEANINGS FROM NATURE. 



welcome with marks and notes of joy. It was the 

 beginning of a great awakening which once each year 

 comes to all animate life. A few of the insects, plants, 

 etc., hegan that day to rub their eyes and endeavor to 

 peep forth to see if a new morning was really begin- 

 ning to dawn. A few days of such weather and they 

 will begin to call to one another the "good morning" 

 of spring. The matin-song or call was that of the 

 bluebird^. The hum of insect, the croak of frog and 

 the clear whistle of the red-shouldered blackbird will 

 soon follow in regular and long accustomed order. 



