October, 1900. 



Junior-Naturalist Monthly. 



Issued by the College of Agriculture and Experiment Station of 

 Cornell University, under Chapter 430 of the Laws of 1899 



of the State of New York. 



Entered in the Post ofifice at Ithaca, N. Y., as second class matter. 



-,. VOL II. CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHAOA, N. Y. NO. 9 





AUTUMN LEAVES. 



N the hills the leaves are coloring. CTradually the 

 sniiimer greens are turning to red and gold. The 

 (Jctober haze is on the fields. The sky is near. 

 Stillness is in the air. The year is ripe. 



I see the pageant along the -countryside, like a 

 procession stretching away to paradise. There are 

 kings and queens in purple and silv^er and gold. 

 There are people in green and buff and brown. There are children 

 in red and pink and yellow. My eyes are drunk with color. 



Over the fields and in the swamps I wander. I smell the weedy 

 odor of the Indian summer. Yellow and fiery-red are the maples. 

 Ked and morocco-red are the oaks. Nut-brown are the beeches. 

 Straw-yellow are the grasses, and brown and sere are the weeds. 

 Each kind has its color. 



And yet there are colors on the maple in the meadow and other 

 colors on the maple on the hill. The oak on one side of my door- 

 way is maroon-red and that on the other side is veiny-yellow, and 

 they have been the same in all the Octobers in which I have loved 

 them. Each plant has its color. 



Floating, sailing, turning, the autumn leaves drop one by one. 

 Content I sit in silence, and let the colors fill my soul. 



L, H, B. 



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