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THE GREAT SPRING RUSH 



HE great spring rush is 

 on. Out of bulb and 

 tuber come the sweet 

 spring flowers that are 

 starring every sunny 

 bank; out of the roots 

 and trunks comes the 

 rich store of sap that is 

 building leaf and blossom on our trees ; out 

 of the ocean come the schools of fish whose 

 strange run up our rivers is one of the char- 

 acteristic features of the spring's advance; 

 out of the warm southland come the birds 

 whose songs for the next few months will 

 be the sweetest music Nature renders. 



Ever since last July the trees have been 

 getting ready for this moment. During the 

 whole of the summer the water came up 

 from the roots, carrying with it the small 



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