plants that stays green thruout the winter – in fact, this is the case with many members of the Pulse Family, especially clovers – was beautiful, for every leaf was fringed at the edge with a fine frost.  As I was crossing a wire fence here a note came across the fields from the south, that seemed so unusual that I thought it was my over developed imagination – an imagination overdeveloped by the last few spring days.  I stopped suddenly and listened hard and eagerly.  Again it came, this time more clearly, tho he was some distance away.  “Cheer’p, Cheer’p, Cheer’p, Cheer’p” he called.  A Cardinal!  A Cardinal singing!  A cardinal singing that spring will surely come some time!  Everything else forgotten I crossed the alfalfa field and “Brook’s lawn”, in the direction of the call, hoping to hear it again.  But he was silent, as tho afraid of his own audacity.
     At the frog pond, the excessive moisture of the pond had fastened itself to low weeds and bushes.  A dense growth of red black berry bushes, were striking in a filmy coat of frost why made them look pinkish.  The first Pasture field had a wierdly beautiful appearance. Stretches of silvery grey sod were broken