. St. Nicholas [serial] . PINKEY DISCOVERS HIS OVERSHOES. calmly removed the overshoes, and, with hisheart swelling with pride at the ringing applause,resumed his seat on the hair-cloth chair. Vol. XXXIL—77. THE By Silas A. Lottridge. A GENTLE SOUth wind has been blow-ing at intervals for aweek, the snowbanksare diminishing in size,and here and there thebrown earth seems tobe pushing itself upfrom beneath. The sun has loosed the icefetters, and again the murmur of the brook isheard ; over the water the pussy-willows arehanging their swollen buds; and out in thegrove the sap is begin
. St. Nicholas [serial] . PINKEY DISCOVERS HIS OVERSHOES. calmly removed the overshoes, and, with hisheart swelling with pride at the ringing applause,resumed his seat on the hair-cloth chair. Vol. XXXIL—77. THE By Silas A. Lottridge. A GENTLE SOUth wind has been blow-ing at intervals for aweek, the snowbanksare diminishing in size,and here and there thebrown earth seems tobe pushing itself upfrom beneath. The sun has loosed the icefetters, and again the murmur of the brook isheard ; over the water the pussy-willows arehanging their swollen buds; and out in thegrove the sap is beginning to drop from themaple-trees. These are signs of spring, indeed!Now it is time to listen for the note of thebluebird. A plaintive note it is at first, but itwill soon give place to a pleasing song, neverloud, but always sweet and altogether sugges-tive of the warblers. How welcome it is—that bit of blue andbrown flitting among the yet naked boughs ofthe old apple-trees ! We look for the bluebirdin spring with a feeling different from that forany other bird during the whole year. Hisnote awakens within us the assurance of thequick return of the spring-beauty and wake-robin and of a whole troop of songsters. In
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