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Hoag's Home-coming.
When it comes to personal feelin's better let yer friends do the talkin' and jedgin'.

A man can't handle his own case any more than a delirious doctor kin give hisself the right physic--Sayings of Si Sylvanne.
The coming of springtime in the woods is one of the gentlest, sweetest advents in the world.

Sometimes there are heavy rains which fill all the little rivers with an overflood that quickly eats away the ice and snow, but usually the woodland streams open, slowly and gradually.

Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.