Show AN OLD FRIEND CALLS So far the groundhog has scarcely maintained l his reputation since tho the second of the month We have had two or t three hr e little blisters o of storm but lut nothing serious and aud then there are witnesses es against again h him those hun l thos those who slay stay out in thc lime daylight and md watch the signs i nR A great t old splendid robin was as up i t town maIi making ng calls caBs yesterday on his old neighbors and and patrons and he lie was IS as IS cheery as os the lark on a summer morning ns as I hearty j in his return return re rea re- re turn song ong Ol as ever a and d every note of it was as an indication indication in in- that the groundhog is a chump and is no nomore nomore nomore more reliable on weather signals than some others who have not had as long experience as his family has We V c are arc disposed to stand by the robin The rhe storms do not scar scare him awa away He lIe goes up in inthe the canyons gets gets' where the thc branches are and while it is a t little bracing on him in j th the coldest weather He Tie sits site in io the trees and rd to keep off the snoe lie He bides hides his bis head hoad wider his wing poor thing Confident that it will all aU be he all right pretty soon oon He Hc is not like the groundhog or Of the thc owl he be does docs not wait for for- fora a prairie dog to dig hg and furnish ahouse a ahouse a ahouse house and then skulk k in O occupy CUpi the best heat rooms i with the rattlesnake e and give Ye the dog but small I chance rather he lIe goes to his old trees and he pulls pulla as much of the foliage down around him as as he can call and arid preaches to his last s t summers summer's babies that in order to be IC healthy it i ii is their duty to sleep on th the tho porch pOlch ii in ill the coldest weather as a standoff for tuberculosis bronchial troubles and other infirmities that come to degenerate man when he gets proud or aristocratic and confines himself to warm rooms loins steam heat hot water heat all theother theother the theother other heats and has hag to have a warm breakfast inthe in hc the morning The Thc robins robin's 5 lesson to his famil family is is that a cold worm partaken of on the cold porch of a tree is tie the true way to stand off indigestion and also all respiratory troubles that come to degenerate degenerate de dc de- de generate men in warm houses And now that he hc comes comes bt back ck to his old neigh and notifies lila his old friends who sometimes leave C cave A loaf of bread out for him that the winters winter js is s ns as good as past and that save saye for a few small snowstorms in March and Apr l and arid up to May ray w Y shall I ll have hav comparatively clear and w warm weather p from tills this put fut and in that way war he supplies the he most hopeful thermometer that any gentleman can have haye in his back yard and take encouragement from rom Down own with the groundhog Up with the the robin |