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Tonight, we'll read another excerpt from In New England Fields and Woods, ridden by Roland Evans

Robinson in 1896.

Robinson was, in his time, one of Vermont's best-known writers.

This collection of short stories follows New England's changing seasons and moods in all its natural beauty.

This particular selection covers the month of April, along with woodchucks, chipmunks,

and garter snakes.

Let's get cozy.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now, take a few deep breaths.

April days,

at last there is full and complete assurance of spring, in spite of the baldness of the

woods, the barrenness of the fields, bleak with sodden furrows of last year's plowing, or pallidly tawny with

bleached grass, and untidy with the jetsum of winter storms, and the wide-strune litter of farms,

and months of foddering and wood hauling.

There is full assurance of spring, in such incongruities as a Phoebe, a perch on a brown mulen stalk in the midst of grimy snowbanks, and there

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