MARCH WINDS 



" Take 

 The winds of March with beauty." 



— " Winter's Tale." 

 "The Ides of March are come." 



— "Julius Caesar." 



The country which for the last two or three 

 weeks has been so deep is beginning to dry up ; 

 farmers are busy sowing their spring corn and 

 preparing land for potatoes and turnips ; young 

 lambs are playing in the fields ; there is a bright 

 blue sky and a bright sun which warms you 

 thoroughly in the middle of the day ; and there 

 is a snarly, biting bitter wind that chills you to 

 the bone as you stand at the corner of the wood, 

 out of the sun and full in the way of the blast, 

 vainly hoping that the fox you in your heart of 

 hearts know is stopped in the main earth, will 

 put in an appearance and let you have a " dart," 

 if it were only over three or four fields. 



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