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CHAPTER XIII 



THE LAST DAY OF WINTER 



CCORDING to the almanac March 21st is 

 the last day of winter. The almanac is not 

 - always to be trusted not for hay weather, 

 or picnic weather, or sailing weather ; but you can 

 always trust it for March 21st weather. Whatever 

 the weather man at Washington predicts about it, 

 whatever comes, snow, sleet, slush, rain, wind, or 

 frogs and sunshine, March 21st is the last day 

 of winter. 



The sun "crosses the line" that day ; spring 

 crosses with him; and I cross over with the 

 spring. 



Let it snow ! I have had winter enough. Let the 

 wind rage ! It cannot turn back the sun ; it cannot 

 blow away the " equinoctial line " ; it cannot snow 

 under my determination to have done, here and 

 now, with winter! 



The sun crosses to my side of the Equator on the 

 21st of March ; there is nothing in the universe that 

 can stop him. I cross over the line with him; and 

 there is nothing under the sun that can stop me. 

 When you want it to.be spring, if you have the sun on 

 your side of the line you can have spring. Hitching 



