Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1899 — About Spring. [ARTICLE]

About Spring.

(Translated from the French by Joe Marshall) This is another almost summer like The barefoot boy gambols gleefully on the green sward, muskrat fur is no longer good, and potato bugs will soon be ripe. All these things indioate v the approach of Spring. Since which things are such, we feel able to state without fear of successful contradiction that gentle, breezful, soothful Spring is here. We might write a beautiful poem on this touching subject, but as the public never did us any harm we will be content to quote a few little gems from other great minds who arc now making footprints on the sands of eternity. “The bluejays sing upon the tree, The mules are in the ditches, The plowman and the plowman’s son Have shed their winter breeches.” Or this: " - “The thoughts of youth do lightly turn to love, and those of age to stomach draughts and pills.”