Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony and...
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