. In the wilderness . ^ themercury stands at eighty degrees. Summer hascome. There was no Spring. The winter is over. You tliiiik so? Robes-pierre thought the Revolution was over in thebeginning of his last Thermidor. He lost hishead after that. When the first buds are set, and the corn isup, and the cucumbers have four leaves, a mali-cious frost steals down from the north and killsthem in a nioht. 176 HOW SPRING CAME IN NEW ENGLAND. That is the last effort of spring. The mercurythen mounts to ninety degrees. The season hasbeen long, but, on the whole, successful. Manypeople survive N

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