CHAPTER XXXVI. 

 MONTHLY CALENDAB. 



§ 1.— Aspect of the Month. 



2072. November, according to the quaint Peachum 

 already quoted, "is drawn with a garment of change- 

 '^Vx^\ ^^^^ green, and has black upon his head" to typify the 

 dark and dreary clouds which hang over the gloomy 

 November landscape. The atmosphere during this 

 month is saturated with moisture, dense mists and fogs abound, 

 and gloomy boisterous weather, as a rule, prevails. The leaves of 

 the beeches are changing their green hue for the purplish chestnut 

 autumnal shade. The mean temperature is about 42° Fahr,, but 

 the thermometer ranges between 23° and 62°. The mean tempera- 

 ture of the earth one foot deep is 46 01° ; at two feet, 47*28°; that 

 of the air being 42 '98% on an average of the years 1844 to 1853. 



" In the stormy east wind straining, 

 The pale yellow woods are waning, 

 The broad stream in its bank complaining, 

 Beavily is the low sky raining.*' 



What a roaring there is now in the woods ; what a rattling of branches and 

 clashing together of great grey iron boughs that seem to groan again in their 

 mighty agony, as the storm tries to tear them from their gnarled and knotty 

 stems. There is something grand about the great November wind lifting up 

 its mighty voice, and pealing, organ-like, through those ancient catliedrals of 



