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Autumn. 



YES! autumn has come at last. The cool, still nights, the ripe 

 and ripening fruit, the variegated colors upon the forest trees, and, 

 perhaps more than all, the little piece of daylight nipped off from 

 both ends of every day, remind us that the fall of the year, named 

 so undoubtedly because it is the season when the leaves fall, has 

 come at last. Since I commenced my monthly visits to you I have 

 seen your sleds and your warm mittens thrown aside, I have seen 



