Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-29
TIE MAN WHO TALKS

II , The man who tries to do you and fails does not have to be told that
 he is trickster. for nothing gives him a keener sense of what he is than the fear that you may have found him out. When he has not perfected his trick, the conceit of satisfaction does
 not soothe him into the sense of smartness which comes from having
 done you. He cannot see why he fail- ed in your case when he succeeded In others by similar methods: and he
 cannot find out whether it was keen- ness or only by accident that you foiled him. Get rogue in quan-
 dary regarding the ability and keen
 ness of those he would fleece, and you
 have him in the worried class and in mental distress. Do not try to let him know how you got onto him, for if you do he win recognize your.
 weakness and eventually show you where you made mistake There IS power in keeping ones own counsel silence where one is expected to be of power which never fails to surprise and confuse those who would be bet ter pleased if silence was broken. The robin in his search for the fresh worm is more interesting to me than
 than the robin who is looking after the early worm. It is in these days of ground-brealSing and raking, worm
 distributing operations that he fol-
 lows the ralSer. the digger and the
 plowman, and gets his reward. His
 black cap and gray coat and red
 breast are not as bright as after a
 moult: but his sharp eye and the pert
 tipping of his head as he comes near,
 as much as to say: T know you wouldn't hurt me,' wins warm place
 in sympathetic hearts. He casts a
 careless glance at the dog and never turns his back to the cat; and has the i air of one who realizes that the air is
 his highway and those poor grovelling crea lures cannot follow him in his
 flight And each year it is the same old robin. The robins are homing
 birds; and for twenty years a robin
 has been known to nest in one place Where robins find conditions to their
 liking they come year after year, and
 are really old friends
 There is no time like the spring time for finding out that 1t is easy to get the kind of help that you do not
 need. The everyday laborer seems to
 owe his lot to his own heedlessness.
 not had ground into his soul which
 would have made life different every
 day to him: and that is: Whatever you undertake to do. do it well-wfaf
 1 QO LOT OLUcTS W1u uO dS well or better than I would do it for myself!" the man or wom an who is resolved to do every thing undertaken well and conscien
 uously and acts upon this conviction is ever in demand. These kind of
 men and women are the kind the world is suffering for today; and this kind
 are not foaters in the world of .in- dustry-they are in constant demand Hard luck is oftener traceable to heed
 lessness than to anything else. The
 person who harbors the thought that
 he is wage slave cannot be a happy
 worker, or find joy in his work Cheerful thoughts and correct ideas of life are great promoters of success.
 It is easy to work against ones self. l often wonder if there is a streak of yellow in me: and I must say that in this direction I catch myself being
 rather suspicious of myself. You may not think it is good to be a suspect in your own eyes; and yet, you will have
 to admit that this is better than be- ing a suspect in the eyes of another If this yellow streak meant gold in stead of measly qualities such as tho yellow dog has. we should not feel so nervous about it. Some folks get so good that they think they are near angels; but when they get their fur stroked the wrong way most of them appear to be near something else. We can aatter ourselves into foolinshness a great deal easier than any one else can fatter US toward fmbecility. I have often thought if man is but a little lower than the angels, the angels must have been on a mission of mer- cy when this relation was discovered it was only temporary; but it has been made the most of. It is better to be a suspect in your own mind than in the eyes of a police officer 
 There is a woodpecker building a nest, perhaps, in an old tree nearby. and it is musical to hear his constant rat-tat-tat! on the dry and not very punky big limb in which he is drilling a hole and carving nest He is a
 model of industry, for he works with the steadiness of a steam drill and not
 with the irregularity of a lot of hu-
 mans at the rock-pile; but how many
 hours day he puts in I do not know. His rat-tat-tat! is to be heard in the
 morning: and it is to be heard in the
 late afternoon, with not a shade of difference in the frequency or per sistency of the blows. and it has been going on for more than a week, now.
 It might annoy some people; but it
 annoys no one who feels an interest
 in the wonderful things going on about them. This is the Hairy woodpecker.
 a great driller of holes where grubs are plentiful; and perhaps it is food rather than nest that he so stead
 fly works for in this city tree. He pulls the borers out of the wood and helps the tree bear smoother and bet ter fruit.
 With all the rest of the world we are complaining because April has not been as balmy as usual,-because it's 1 mornings have seemed to symboliZc almost anything but youth and hope. It doesn't make much difference how man regards April since the month never fails in it's purpose of opening the way for fairer and more f1owery May. We never miss the haze, the flowers, the bird songs or the bon :
 fires of April; or the electric storms. or the lightning. or the rainbow. Jack Frost is usually in ApriFs budget for he yields slowly to the suns increas-
 ing power and melting and revivifying influences. The lilies will ,sprout and the dandelions and the rhubarb grow; in fact, eall the host of growing things
 feel a stirring as of wings, and are wakened from their dreams by the
 warm and sunny gleams of April
 sunshine in the air;-Springtime's
 spiendor everywhere" We have the
 spring scents of earth and grass, of leaf and rain. If nature is a little be-
 hind in some things she may be ahead in others.