Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — February. [ARTICLE]

February.

When the street* are full of slushy, mushy snow, When our cellars and our gutters overflow, When we lose our gum galoshes As the snowdrift slowly sloshes And anon tht sidewalk sploshes—

Doucherknow ? When the careless little blrdlet pokes his head From his warm and comfortable winter bed. And receives an Icy tlplet From Johannes Frostus’ nlplet, And then dleth of the plplet— Very dead— When the earth Is In a sort of frozen web. When the cigarette gives way to the cubeb, Then, oh, then, ’tls very clear— And I say It without fear— We have reached the time of year * Written, Feb. —Harper’s Bazar.