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Prairie chickens is heard on every side. You remember it, and can describe it to Jenny. It is about the half way sound between the roaring of Bull, and the Cooing of doves. Jenny though is hardly familiar with the cooing of doves. Turtle doves are not common in New Hampshire. I have seem them in Massachusetts. I heard the Prairie Hens first the 12th The Frogs commenced about the same day. The Tree Toads began to croak the 11th. The post was all out of the ground here last week before the rains of Saturday Night & Sunday. Now just remember how pleasant Spring is, and wish you were now in this climate. Or think of Maine & New Hampshire, where the snow is now - well, at the least, ever so deep, and the Thermometer below Zero, and be glad you are in your present climate. The Post yesterday passed round a Church Subscription Paper, and got almost a thousand dollars subscribed at once besides two lots from Church & Parsonage from Keyes & Metcalf. If we call the lots $200.00 each, this with Mr M's individual subscription of $300.00, and Mr. Keyes of $100.00 for his wife (and I guess he will add another hundred) makes R. & M. pretty likely?. Do you not think so? Dea, Benj. Sprague would not subscribe any thing! His brother A.J. you