| Show I Sees His ShadoW Shadow and Dodges Into Hole for Six Weeks I Yes he saw aw his shadow That great American over this moring sniffed the nr air of hil Ida lien ilon and emerged front his hibernation Slowly hu he traveled IsIs his paths pah tu to the outSIde world pruned himself In ill a glowerIng Iky sky and then proceeded to frisk I For or there was a harbinger or of green gd grass and budding sprouts so 80 dear to Isle his tate taste and a l knowledge its In with the tho gloomy heavens heaven anti and the tho obscured sun which brought lisp op to his v very ry soul So he frIsked and frisked made neade myriad tracks In the tho sow neon abut about hi hiden Isle den In the tooth foothills Is and shouted In ver very glee slee He dug down beneath the white mante mantle ond and tho bunch g grass until Ice he could hardly ramble for tor ver very gluttony I It was th first go good mel meal he had had hiatt since he hn had Culled up on the cal call of the wild e montU giving vigor before being lo ho could Imparted feel the through Ir life his veins and lee he ha vIsions or of groan green felds fields and now IlO In the near future for seas not the tho iwo lr But al all at olce once l rt shadow tel fell upon his dream I It was shortly boror before n non n when he had to with succulent ts which had their dormant life luler tim tho frIendly sheler shelter of natures winter blanket H Fin had b been n blinking at thee the t tIk Ik sky and thinking wheat what a fine time he would have bavo along the tho swelling stream mossy banks But Dut al all at once before the had hod reached hil lets meridian he glanced about and saw aw n a shap shape which WM was terrifying I It was al only tha that ot of and he sw saw I it even na you and I But It drove him bacle to his den In I a very er tremor or of despair There ho he curled up and wi will not amile emerge for tor siX sir weeks when It wil will all allbe b be over oer But In the the cOln coon tr try Is to be subjected to al all tIle tho rigor of what ha lots oln been ano and only a few Cew days day I Lent Lent wi wIll tim tho weather god gods xe re reI I train rain and consent to open up the chinook and zephyrs which cc I ill convert thee the landscape from whito to eren geen The fable o of the that thatIs If Is hi his popular as old I as the tho landing o of thee tho Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock flock I It orIginated there durin during that that fiat terrible win winter tor In the early seven seen when tile the Mayflower tenants that historic congregation waited eagerly for tor thee the open opening In o of During the later latter part ot of a a ahard hard winter they had subsisted upon coIn alono and al all were growinG mea meager ger and discouraged The Tho legend has It that the redoubt redoubtable able Miles Standish lee he ot of PriscIlla fame that made immortal by the poe pen of while mak makIng lag Ing an ale excursion abroad came one ot of these ani animals mils who have also gene Gono down to fame disporting under a cloudy sky The and bashful captain watched his antics wih Interest interest and reported his findings to thee the colon AntI to 10 the very vCr next da day the began to go o and spring lead had set In The grass began to sprout and the trees to bud Thee The Indians under sender came In wih with grain and ond friendly overtures and the tho hard hardtimes times ot of the Pilgrims cero ero at an end Thee Tho next waI ceas very severe sovere Snow pied piled up to n a hel height hl of man many feet teet and tho cold was evas Intense The second ot of February was a bright sunny da day and the groundhog saw hil his Ihnow shadow le lewaR lie watt waR seen to fult his gamboling and to re tur turn to his den from which he did not emerge again AS far as the Pilgrims Pilgrim kne knew until six weeks afterward And that month Ind and a halt half WI was the tho sever eat lt which had been beon known to oy any a of that heroic bund band And that Is the th superstition the tho legend or what yoU may term I it of tho great American groundhog At Atan I an any rate Ir If traditions ao are out thel le Is going to ho bo severe winter for si six to come |
