A8 The Cuckoo. 
everybody, it is received with welcome as the har- 
binger of spring—while the small willow-wren has 
been proclaiming the same thing in a much sweeter 
way for more than a week previous, close to our yery 
doors, and doing much good in taking away the blight 
from our apple-bloom and other fruit trees; and yet 
most of us have never thanked him for coming over 
the sea to welcome with us the first appearance of 
spring. 

