adually increasing

    tumult,  took a s

    siesta at noon, and boomed once more toward nighe sun was

    stage of ther a pond

    fires its evening gun  regularity.  But in the middle of

    tic,

    it ely lost its resonance, and probably fishes and

    muskrats could not tunned by a blo.  the

    fis t;t; scares the fishes

    and prevents ting.  t thunder every evening,

    and I cannot tell surely  its t though I

    may perceive no difference in t does.  ho would have

    suspected so large and cold and to be so

    sensitive?  Yet it s lao hunders obedience when

    it sh is

    all alive and covered  pond is as

    sensitive to atmosps

    tube.

    One attraction in coming to to live  I should

    unity to see the ice in

    t lengto be  my heel

    in it as I walk.  Fogs and rains and warmer suns are gradually

    melting the days have grown sensibly longer; and I see how

    I s ter  adding to my wood-pile, for

    large fires are no longer necessary.  I am on t for the

    first signs of spring, to e of some arriving

    bird, or triped squirrels cores must be now

    nearly exed, or see ture out of er

    quarters.  On ter I he bluebird,

    song sparroill nearly a foot thick.

    As t  sensibly he

    er, nor broken up and floated off as in rivers, but, t

    ely melted for  the

    middle ed er, so t you

    could put your foot t he

    next day evening, pe