text:  A troop of riders who have been stirred severally from their firesides by the searching spirit of spring have casually fallen into company and who pace along breathing an air which "sweet showers" have embalmed--exhilarated by the brightening radiance of "the young sun " and made loquacious by the very power which pours out the song of the glad birds from the newly-leaved boughs by the long wayside