254 JSTotes on the Season. 
he rapidly changed from severely cold feelings towards all with 
whom he associated, to a mild and rather agreeable fellow, for 
instead of clothing the whole atmosphere around him with angry 
clouds, and lashing them across the sky with winds too searching to 
allow themselves to be agreeable, he permitted the warm sun to 
shine and the gentle gales from the south to blow and dissolve 
the relenting snows and unchain the rivers from their fetters of 
ice. On the eighteenth he called the blue bird to usher in the 
morning of spring with its mellow notes, and the nineteenth ad- 
mitted the robin to strike in concert, with its well tuned strains. 
The twenty-first, phebe birds made their first appearance, and the 
twenty-ninth, the frogs struck in their odious bass to complete the 
concert. 
On the night of the twenty-fourth, there was a brilliant exhi- 
bition of Aurora Borealis, throwing up its brilliant jets of light 
of various colors, to the zenith. When these beautiful corrusca- 
tions of the sky appear, a change of weather may with almost a 
certainty be caculated upon. It was so in this case, but instead 
of severer weather, as it often happens, we had a warm, foggy 
turn, and the snow disappeared rapidly under its influence. 
March, considering it was March, and the hard character he has 
acquired, whether deserved or not, was on the whole a very good 
month. The wintry winds must surely blow until they blow out, 
and if March is disposed to let them play their pranks over his 
bosom instead of putting them ofl^' to scowl over the features of 
April or chill the beauties of May flowers, surely we mortals 
have no cause of complaint, provided we have strength of clothing 
and firmness of character enough to meet their rough usage with 
indifference. 
April was rather cool in its early salutations, but the approach 
of spring was heralded on the first by alder in bloom, and 
numerous flocks of pigeons and wild geese going north. On the 
fourth, there was a moderate fall of rain, snow mostly disappeared 
from the fields and roads; fifth muddy, first plow seen in motion; 
sixth and seventh, cold; eighth, fine; ninth, warm; tenth, do; 
surface of the ground getting very dry, plowing commenced in 
earnest; eleventh and twelfth, fine; thirteenth, slight fall of 
snow; fourteenth, cool; continues cool till the eighteenth, when 
there was a fall of snow at night, most of which was blown into 
drifts, which remained in certain localities for four days; twentieth, 
cold, ground froze at night sufficient to bear horses; twenty-first, 
moderates; twenty-second, twenty-third, mild; twenty-fourth, cold, 
dry winds, vegetation suffering for want of rain, and continues so 
until the end of the month. 
The question has often been asked of late, what has become of 
our old fashioned April showers? Ye philosophers! can ye tell 
