XI 

 OCTOBER 



' Withered leaves, one two and three 



Through the calm and frosty air 

 Of this morning bright and fair 

 Eddying round and round they sink 

 Softly, slowly.' 



W. Wordsworth. 



OCTOBER 19. My best yellow autumn 

 window curtains are up ! No other 

 curtains could ever please me so much as 

 these. But to make it understood how 

 perfect in their way they are, the windows 

 also must be described. They are almost 

 the only windows in the house that are 

 not old-fashioned casements. At that 

 period, in the beginning of the century, 

 when in most old houses the picturesque 

 and small-paned casements were made into 

 sash-windows, the windows of the room 



