70 A Hunt for the Pyxie 



not slacken his pace ? I know not where 

 else, in these northern regions, so much is to 

 be seen, and so soon. Spring, elsewhere, is 

 the round year's strangest child, often too 

 forward, and too often backward ; but her 

 accomplishments here and now are beyond 

 criticism. Such perfeft work, and yet she 

 is not out of her teens. The day was 

 April I. 



