CONCORD 
Progress of the Season 
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By far the warmest and pleasantest day of the 
spring thus far and, for those of us who have braved this 
long, hard winter in the country, a red letter day, as 
genial as March ever gives us in this latitude and filled 
with the promise of still better things in the near 
future. The almost total absence of wind and the bright 
sunshine reflected from the snow which still covers much 
of the ground or from the calm surface of the river made 
the heat at times really oppressive. Of course the snow 
and ice wasted very rapidly under these conditions. The 
brooks ran bank-full and the river was covered with cakes 
and small fields of floating ice mingled with pieces of 
boards, old railroad sleepers, logs, rafts of dead rushes, 
and every other conceivable flotsam and jetsam, all 
whirling down towards the sea in the strong current. Al¬ 
though the water is low for the season the Great Meadows 
are, of course, flooded. They are still for the most part 
covered with ice but tnis is interspersed with ponds of 
open water and near the river banks there are deep bays 
which extend back for varying distances into the gray, 
water-soaked ice. The fields, where the ground is bare, 
are still cere and brown with no trace of green on the 
sunniest slopes. There is still much frost in the ground 
and the roads and ploughed lands a.re morasses of soft, 
sticky mud. The pines, as I noted yesterday, have aliready 
assumed their bright, lively spring coloring. 
