242 JULY. 



look for the preservation of our moral nobility. 

 Whenever, therefore, I behold one of our old 

 field-paths closed, I regard it as another link 

 in the chain which Mammon is winding around 

 us, another avenue cut off by which we might 

 fly to the lofty sanctuary of Nature, for power 

 to withstand him. 



July is named after Julius Caesar, one of 

 whose best deeds was to reform the Calendar. 

 The Saxons called it henmonath or foliage 

 month ; hey-monath, or hay month ; and Lida- 

 aftera, or second month after the sun's descent. 



About the middle of the month, the shoals 

 of that migratory fish, the pilchard, begin to 

 appear off the coast of Cornwall. Bees begin 

 to kill and expel drones ; and flying ants quit 

 their nests. Hens moult or lose their feathers. 

 The smaller birds do not moult so early, but 

 all renew their plumage before winter, when 

 they are in their finest and warmest clothing. 

 Young partridges are found among the corn at 

 this time. Flax and hemp are pulled this 

 month. 



