The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1858-03-27
Spring.

Yesterday was a bright blue dht klh q
winter face aud a spring heart The din OF
business rolled along the street, but We knew
they we're at work, out IN the maple orchards,
and that round tile motherly breast OF many
grand old tree the baby tubs were hanging,
and drinking its sugary life. We knew that
al night the lazy ox-sled went round. over the
wasting drhs, plunging and sliding along,
hearing the receiving hokshead. We knew
that oil day long the hired men were swing
ing the AK al thousand doors, reducing the
logs 10 the capacity Of the fire plurf, and max
ing chips for the summer fire and the sum-
mer tca-kettle. We knew that tho long
stalled cattle we're turned into tho yard. and
we're giving guarded expressions Of their JOY
and fIoir happy antcipations by hooking one
another's ribs, or locking horns or making
hostile denominations upon the manure heap.
VT knew that the old country dog and the
old country cat, who had been inclined "a hug
the stove, or steal a corner in the kitchen,
we're lying on the sunny eide Of the house, In
the stoop, out Of the way Of the wind summing
themselves. We kneN that the forest tWiEs
we're teasing one another about n secret that
they had got tied up In their buds Ehd NO
knew the whole thing would be out Ia the
course Of q few weeks,
We presume somebody will bs hearing A
bVs.bHd in . day or two. With the expe-
ienoe OF last spring inour minds We shall
have very SERIOUS doubts about these first re-
ports. DOR readers will remember that our
first report last year of blue-bird hailed from
Crescent Hill. We believe the general inn
preston was that that blue-bird was failure
that the bird itself was broken down blue
iay--a blue-bird arranged with reed stop.
We deny the legitimacy Of any such blue-bird
as this. Besides, IL is a rule among all respee-
table and thoroughbred blue-birds 10 report
themselves TO the editors fret 30 far ns
blue jays are concerned, We have had them
around tho house half Of the winter, attempt
log TO palm themselves of for something they
were not Nothing but the fear Of frighten-
ing the neighbors, u horT.r Of gunpowder, the
lack Of gun, and not knowing how to- load
II II We had o,e, together with certain eonsci-
entious seruples about taking the life Of ami
mails, have kept as from shooting them, and
putting a stopper upon their noise.
Well. the winter has not used us III this
year, We shall part with II aGrctionatcly
and regretfullS. II has had a kind sky for
the poor aud they needed IL. We have hard.
~ known IL was winter nj all. In fact. the
season hns only been found in the almanac.
aud not there Is an extent that had any visi-
BILE effect upon the thermometer. Yet, after
all, we shall be glad TO see the earth green
again. We shall be glad to sec the river
shimmerng in the warm spring sun, 10 try
our hook in the trout-brooks once more, and
10 ait down TO broilcd shnd--not one of your
thin, sharky looking creatures from the land
Of hoc-eake and niggcrs, but n broad backed.
delicious old fellow, just quivering from It's
fatal nir.bath at Double Ditch or Hadley
Falls. We shall be glad to see the grass
coming up again. and to return the wink Of
the first violet, and see the beans kicking
their way into the world feet first ard behold
the potatoes coming up stiff and soleInn as if
] q gh.aNf gn1 h.. I.F al.
died. and mark the grapebuds pushing out
in tan-colored velvet, and all that kind OF
thing. The fact is. God has spread out a
great many things in this world worth look
ing at and living for and spring has rather
more than her hare.-SpriHQfeld RcpuJ