They are trotting about briskly over the snow,
amid the weeds, apparently pig-weed and Ro-
man wormwood, as if to keep their toes warm
hopping up to the weeds. Then they suddenly
take to wing again, and as they wheel about
one, it is a very rich sight to see them dressed
in black and white uniforms, alternate black
and white, very distinct and singular. Perhaps
no colors would be more effective above the
snow, black tips (considerably more) to wings,
then clear white between this and the back,

which is black or very dark again They

alight again equally near. Their track is much
like a small crow's track.
The last new journal thinks that it is very
liberal, nay, bold ; but it does not publish a
child's thought on important subjects, such as
life and death and good books. It requires
the sanction of the divines just as surely as
the tamest journal does. If it had been pub-
lished at the time of the famous dispute be-
tween Christ and the doctors, it would have
published only the opinions of the doctors and
Buppressed Christ's. There is no need of a
iaw to check the license of the press. It is law



42 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS.
