Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute - Acta Nostra Yearbook (Guelph, Ontario Canada)

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eii - - 35 SPRING FEVER By josepltine Boyd. Xllnl I came down the library steps and smelled spring in the air. There was a sort of hushed expectancy all around me as if the world was treading softly lest it frightei. spring away. As I waited for ihe traffic light to blink open its great green eye, I watched water running across the sidewalk and dripping over the cttrb with a little. exultant chuckle. I stooped and picked up from the cttrb a large golden alley. Certainly, spring was here. I turned the alley round and round, watching the sun glint in its amber depths. and, as I did so, my coat felt suddenly too heavy and my rubbers dragged at my feet The street light, like a domineering hollyhock, turned in my favour and. slipping the token of spring into my pocket, I crossed the street. There was l1Ot a sign of green in the garden by the bank bttt I knew that deep in the ground the tulip bulbs were stirring. I-'ow could they resist the warmth of the sun? I took off my gloves and swung my arms briskly to feel the breeze through my fingers. The air was exhilarating, not with the brisk snap of autumn or the chill bite of winter, but with that delightful something which poets are pleased to call the wine of spring. The victim has but to take one deep draught of this heady essence, and at once he is struck with a mysterious nialadv called spring fever, for which there is only one sure and certain cure- to do exactly what the fever urges him to do. Of course, each person reacts dif- ferently. XVhen the housewife is struck, she seizes dttster, mop, and rug-beater fhanding the last to her husband or any other unfortunate near at handy and attacks the spring -housecleaning with a violence and strength of which, at other times of the year, she would IIOI believe herself capable. The fisher- man's spring fever makes him get out his tackle and fondle tt, while a moun- tain stream. and the flash of a vigorous silver fish. dance before his eyes. The poet gets ottt his Dictionary of Rhyme and tries another one of his annual odes to spring. The small bov lieaves his last snowball, counts his hoard of marbles, and starts practising for the spring fun. Perhaps the fisherman stirs in him, too, and he goes digging fish- worms. Town workers eagerly plan picnics in the country. the farmer whis- tles at the spring plottghing, and a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. XVhatever form it takes, spring fever makes you delightfully happy for no reason at all, and vaguely resentful of your usual daily work without tptite knowing why. .-Xt least, that is the wav I felt as I finished my shopping. Of course, this might be only one of those previews of spring. before that capri- cious coquette finally decided to stay, but it had all the magic of a bona fide first appearance, and. in honottr of the occasion, I carried home from the little florists shop an arnrfttl of daffodils, golden as spring sunshine and as gay with promise as the amber alley I still carried in my pocket. AI O.X'f 'tlIliX TI 'AI PER ENXE II l1t'11 brozusirzg' in a cflttrtllyard. I fozmd ll IIFIUVII path, 1 llffll-l'f1 led me to a Slilllflft' lonzb, 1-11111 tltts. its ejztltaplzz God rest the son! l11'r1'1o1der, llvllfhif' cfetter, gerttle Illllllff Tflilllgflf God gave 111.117 ability To flt'II6'fI-f n1a11l:1'11d. i God bless this Ilfllfgflf 5011 who was IVllf1e e'1'r his life-blood ran, 1-1 flflffl-Of, a ptmsorzage. ,-Ind more than that: a man. -Allan Evans, XIIIB,

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