Meadow and Mountain 



"When spring comes home," the snow is gone and the 

 blossoms come along the river. The horse-chestnut, the red- 

 bud, the wild-plum, and the blackhaw mingle their crimson 

 and white with the green of the new-leaved trees. You 

 would scarcely know the river now, or the cottonwood tree 

 that stands on the brink with its feet in the tide. 



The variety of trees that grow along these prairie rivers 

 is phenomenal. Ash, hackberry, walnut, pecan, box-elder, 

 blackjack, elm, willow, plum, blackhaw, the Judas tree, 

 several kinds of oak, and other trees are scattered along these 

 river valleys of the prairies. In and out the rivers wind 

 among these trees, caressing them to beauty and to bloom. 

 When nesting time is come, and the humming of bees, music 

 steals across these woodland shades. On these serenely-glid- 



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