194 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
to hop or creep close to the ground under the 
fallen weeds. Perhaps it deserves most to be 
called the ground- bird. 
March 21, 1840. Our limbs, indeed, have 
room enough : it is our souls that rust in a cor¬ 
ner. Let us migrate interiorly without inter¬ 
mission, and pitch our tent each day nearer the 
western horizon. The really fertile soils and 
luxuriant prairies lie on this side the Alle- 
ghanies. There has been no Hanno of the 
affections. Their domain is untraveled ground 
to the Mogul’s dominions. 
March 21, 1841. To be associated with 
others by my friend’s generosity when he be¬ 
stows a gift is an additional favor to be grate¬ 
ful for. 
March 21, 1858. p. M. To Kibbe Place. 
The Stellaria media is fairly in bloom in Mr. 
C--’s garden. This, then, is our earliest 
flower, though it is said to have been intro¬ 
duced. It may blossom under favorable cir¬ 
cumstances in warmer weather than usual any 
time in the winter. It has been so much opened 
that you could easily count its petals any month 
the past winter, and plainly blossoms with the 
first pleasant weather that brings the robins, 
etc., in numbers. The bees this morning had 
access to no flower, so they came to the graft¬ 
ing wax on my boat, though it was mixed with 
