NEWS OF SPRING 



generous beauty and their amorous excesses, grants them a 

 force, a brilliancy and perfumes which she never gives to those 

 which hang back and show a fear of life. 



All this, among other truths, was proclaimed by the little 

 house that I saw to-day on the side of a hill all deluged in 

 roses, carnations, wall-flowers, heliotrope and mignonette, so 

 as to suggest the source, choked and overflowing with flowers, 

 whence Spring was preparing to pour down upon us; while, 

 upon the stone threshold of the closed door, water-melons, 

 lemons, oranges, limes and Turkey figs slumbered peacefully 

 in the steel-blue shade and amid the majestic, deserted, mo- 

 notonous silence of a perfect day. 



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