tting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging

    at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation.  Standing

    at my door, I could bear their wings; when, driving

    toh hushed

    clamor  the

    door, and passed my first spring nighe woods.

    In tche

    mist, sailing in ty rods off, so large

    and tumultuous t alden appeared like an artificial pond for

    t.  But  once rose up

    flapping of  their commander, and

    o rank circled about over my y-nine

    of teered straigo Canada, h a regular honk

    from t intervals, trusting to break t in

    muddier pools.  A quot;plumpquot; of ducks rose at time and took

    te to their noisier cousins.

    For a week I he circling, groping clangor of some

    solitary goose in ts companion, and

    still peopling they

    could sustain.  In April the pigeons were seen again flying express

    in small flocks, and in due time I ins ttering over

    my clearing, t  seemed t townsained so

    many t it could afford me any, and I fancied t they were

    peculiarly of t race t d in rees ere we

    men came.  In almost all climes tortoise and the frog are among

    th song

    and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow,

    to correct t oscillation of the

    equilibrium of nature.

    As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in

    of spring is like tion of Cosmos out of Che

    reali