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OCT. 27. St, Frumentxus, b. and conf, 4th age. 

 St. Eleutheran, king and confessor. 

 St. Abban, abbot in Ireland. 



Obs. Meropius, a philosopher of Tyre, out of curiosity and a de- 

 sire of seeing the world and improving his knowledge, travelled both 

 into Persia and into farther India, which name the ancients gave to 

 Ethiopia. He carried with him two of his nephews, Frumentius 

 and Edesius, with whose education he was entrusted. In the course 

 of their voyage homewards the vessel touched at a certain port to 

 take in provisions and fiesh water. The barbarians of that country, 

 who were then at variance with the Romans, stopped the ship, and 

 put the whole crew and all the passengers to the sword, except the 

 two children, who were studying their lessons under a tree at some 

 distance ; their innocence and tender age inspired compassion, and 

 they were carried to the king. The prince, charmed with the wit 

 of the two boys, took especial care of their education, and afterward 

 made Frumentius his treasurer and secretary, and Euesius his cup- 

 bearer. Frumentius was in time oidained Bishop of Ethiopia by St. 

 Athanasius, and by his discourses and miracles gained great num- 

 bers to the faith. This iioly bishop's death is commemorated 

 by the Latins on the 27th of November. 



Floribund Starwort Aster ftoribundus full fl. 



In fine weatlier many plants yet remain in flower wliicli belong to summer ; 

 indeed most of the aestival plants still hold out a few flowers from their wet 

 and semirotten stalks, wliicli in a tine sunny noon wouM almost remind one 

 of summer, were it iiot for the quantity oi tUad leaves which now cover the 

 ground, and the deep autumnal colouring of those which remain on the trees. 

 The Ash by this time has oftentimes quite cast its leav'S ; those of the Elm 

 are greatly thinned, and the rest quite yellow. The Puplars are fast falling, 

 and the light foliage of the Mountain Ash lie scattered, like its mouldering 

 red berries, on the ground. The Beech, the Hornbeam, and the Oak, retain 

 their leaves the longest, and even keep them all the winter. Of fruit trees, 

 the Cherries, Apples, and Pears, are now shedding their leaves, wliile the 

 Mulberry letains its green leaves to the last, and often keeps them all till tiie 

 first smart frost, when they fail all at oncj. We have seen them drop on tlie 

 rising of the sUn, alter a frosty night, altogether like a shower. At the fall of 

 the leaf a sepaiation takes I'lace, either in the footstalk, or mure usually at its 

 base, and the dying part quits the vigorous one, whirh is |iroraoted by the 

 weight of the leaf itself, or liv the action of the gales that bluw in autumn on 

 its expanded form. At this titne of year, as the poet says, 



The woodpath is carpeted over with leaves, 



The glories of autumn decay; 

 The Goddess of Plenty has bound up lier sheaves, 



And carried the harvest away. 



The yellow colour which the leaves assume at this season, and their begin- 

 ning to fall, remind us Of the foUouing lines of Pope's Homer, of which John- 

 son used to be very fond : 



Like leaves on tiees, the i ace of Man is found 



Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; 



Another r.ice the fidlowing spring supplies. 



They fall successive and successive rise ; 



So generations in their course decay, 



So flourish these when those are passed away. 



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