Jan. 24 - Class at 13 this morning, A thin snow covers the ground, like a frost. The Sparrows are cheerily sing ing in the Wardpile, in an undertone as before, as if trying their flutes for the burst of melody that will greet us the first warm day; the Blue birds are quiet. 25 - Class at 10. Rising to 5.2 at noon, in morning Sparrows singable but the birds seemed to think he had no contract to furnish music at such weather, & were quite still in the PM. By the bye, bluebirds are more plentiful than last year, and I hope swallows will be. Perhaps they have undergone their periodic course; common rumor says all the animal kings that reduce the race by killing, all put the most robust of the keeping it from procreation by deteration.