Chapter 24 LITTLE PITCHERS.

If aught in nature be unnatural,

It is the slaying, by a spring-tide frost,

Of Spring's own children; cheated blossoms all

Betrayed i' the birth, and born for burial,

Of budding promise; scarce beloved ere lost.

Fables In Song.

The whole party were gathered on the lawn after breakfast, preparing for the start, and continually runn