CHAPTER III 



APRIL DAYS 



A PRIL gives a warmer promise than that of 

 ** spring ; it foretells the awakening of summer. 

 Buds are opening ; early nestlings take their first 

 flight ; all the world is singing. The very brook- 

 lets sound musical and merry. From dark 

 crevices the hybernating creatures come forth ; 

 companies of skilled workers borers, excavators 

 scavengers all are busy. Vigorous young grubs 

 set out on a march around leaves that not one in 

 a hundred of them will survive. The woods are 

 daily more populous with insect life, and the lanes 

 are astir with murmuring crowds. It is doubly 

 unfortunate that now, when the life of every animal 

 is so important in relation to the perpetuation of 

 its species, the rising generation of human kind is 

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