G@ Cure for Winter 
den and the bees, it is some of a thousand other 
chores that keep you busy and living past the pre- 
sent, — and past the present is the spring. 
I am watching for the phcebes to return to the 
shed, — they are my first birds. I long to hear the 
shrill piping of the March frogs, to pick a blue 
hepatica from beneath the pines ; for these are some 
of the things, besides cheaper rent, more room, more 
boys, fresh air, quiet, and a cow, that one lives for 
here on the farm. But I am not waiting, winter-sick, 
for I have stored the summer in attic and cellar; 
Iam already having my spring — in prospect; and 
as for the actual winter, the snow-bound days are all 
too few for the real winter joys of this simple, ample 
life, here in the quiet, among the neighbor fields. 
