NOVEMBER 



A November Night 



THE country home which is placed to perfec- 

 tion commands a view of sky as well as 

 landscape. In full daylight we want to enjoy 

 from our window the view of distant hill and valley ; 

 but after the grey and purple of these are veiled by 

 the dusk, a great sky stage should lie open around 

 us for the drama of a clear night. With November, 

 the time is near when the star and planet scenery is 

 grandest. With all its entrancement, the summer 

 night wanted Orion and the lustre of Jupiter. Now 

 both are in the eastern sky at an early hour of the 

 night. 



In a city we can only expect to see the open sky 

 by fragments above us there is hardly any view of 

 sky around, nothing worth calling an horizon. But 

 it is not only in cities that a view of the sky is 

 baulked. It is often the same in true country places. 

 Plantations and outbuildings hide the rise and set of 

 star and planet. Neither from the upper windows 

 of the house, nor from terrace or walled garden, can 

 we always enjoy a wide sweep of open sky ; to have 

 this we must go to the high-lying common or to the 

 peewit marsh. 



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