(52 rr.TMATE, SEASONS, kc. Part i. 



March 22. Rain all last night, and all this day. 



23. Mild and fine. A sow had a litter of pigs 

 in the leaves under the trees. Judge of the 

 weather by this. The wind blows cold ; 

 but, she has drawn together great heaps 

 of leaves, and protects her young with 

 surprising sagacity and exemplary care 

 and fondness. 



24. Same weather. 



25. Still mild and fair. 



26. Very cold wind. We try to get the sow 

 and pigs into the buildings. But the pigs 

 do not follow, and we cannot, with all 

 our temptations of corn and all our caress- 

 es, get the sow to move without them 

 b}' her side. She must remain 'till they 

 choose to travel. How does nature, 

 through the conduct of this animal, re- 

 proach those mothers, who cast off their 

 new-born infants to depend on a hireling's 

 breast ! Let every young man, before he 

 marry, read, upon this subject, the pret- 

 ty poem of Mr. Roscoe, called " the 

 Nurse ;" and, let him also read, on the 

 same subject, the eloquent, beautiful, 

 and soul-affecting passage, in Rousseau's 



27. Fine w\'irm day. Then high wind, rain. 

 snow, and hard frost before morning. 



28. Hard frost. Snow 3 inches deep. 



29. Frost in the night ; but, all thawed in the 

 day, and very warm. 



30. Frost in night. Fine warm day. 

 /<].Fine warm day. — As the zcinicr is now 



gone, let us take a look back at its incon- 

 veiiicnces ccmi)aied with those of an 



English IVinier. We have had three 



months of it ; for, if we had a few days 

 sharp in December, we have had ma- 



