THE PARTING GUESTS. 



?-, VERY year, as autumn closes in, and 

 the air grows cool in the long Septem- 

 ber twilights ; when the still abundant 

 leafage is touched here and there with 

 the shades of brown and yellow that 

 ere long will ripen into gold and scarlet ; even the 

 least observant of us notice a change in the woods and 

 the lanes, and in the very streets of the city. 



There are few who do not miss at least the swallow. 



