22 UNDER THE OPEN SKY 



parts with him to go to the far end, quite 

 reluctantly, and hastens to near him as she 

 turns her most distant point. And for all this 

 natural reluctance and equally natural haste, 

 because forsooth it does not keep pace with 

 our cold and calculating clocks, we blame 

 the sun. But he goes on undisturbed and 

 now he is bringing us our great spring feast. 



EASTER COMES 



How blithely man packs together in his 

 mind the most incongruous things and 

 makes of them a charming mixture whose 

 ingredients it is often most difficult to un- 

 tangle! So it comes that on Easter we have 

 our eggs, and of all eggs in the world, rabbits' 

 eggs. How strangely the ancient world, the 

 Christian era, the old religion of our pagan 

 ancestors as they roamed the European 

 forest, and our modern returned sympathy 

 with nature join to make this a joyous feast. 



The old Hebrew tribes, celebrating their 

 feast at the return of the sun, with the sac- 

 rifice of the young lamb, and linking it in 

 their minds with their escape from their 



