MAUTILMAS TIDE. 315 



NOV. 10-. St. Andrew Avellino, conf. a.d. 1608. 

 St. Justus, bishop of Canterbury, 627. 

 SS. Milles, bishop, Abrosimus, priest, and Sina, 34 1 . 

 SS. Trypho and Respicius, martyrs, and Nympha, 

 virgin, 250. 



Obs, St. Andrew Avellino was a native of Castro Nuovo near 

 Naples, and was born in 1520. From his earliest infancy he shewed 

 a very pious disposition. To pretend to have a desire to serve God, 

 and resist the temptations of the world, without having recourse to 

 the daily exercises of virtue, of prayer, and of penance, he held to 

 be a foolish and vain delusion. He practised great austerities, and 

 preserved perpetual watchfulness over his passions. As watermen 

 who row against wind and tide exert every nerve and put their 

 whole strength to the work, so ought we who labour against the 

 stream of temptation and the wind of adversity in the precarious 

 bark of life to omit no auxiliary to our virtue, but strive with all our 

 strength and with all the helps we can get against the foe who is 

 opposing our course. If any one lets go his hold, his skiff like a 

 boat will be carried down the tide of pleasure into the whirlpool of 

 destruction. St. Andrew Avellino, after a life of useful labour ia 

 the service of the truth, after foundmg many monasteries, and doing 

 many virtuous acts, at length, broken by age, he was attacked with 

 apoplexy at mass, while saying Introibo ad allure Dei, and expired 

 in the eighty eighth year of his age. He was prepared for his pas- 

 sage by the last sacraments, and died on the 10th of November, 

 1608. His remains are kept in the church of his convent of St. 

 Paul at Naples, and he was canonized by Pope Clement XI. 



Scotch Fir Pinus sylvestris conifer. 



Though the Evergreens do not shed their leaves in winter, they let some of 

 them fall in the warm autumn weather, and get a few new ones before winter. 

 The cones by this time lie scattered on the ground. 



This is the eve of St. Martin's Day, and we sliall therefore quote tlie follow- 

 ing old lines relating to the nioirow ; they may perhaps be read time enough 

 to remind our good housewives to get the Goose ready. There are various pro- 

 verbial lines written on St. Martin's Day. The following epigram is in a Col- 

 lection, in quarto, entitled In Mensium Opera et Donaria Dccii Ausonit 

 Magni, We are indebted for it to Ellis's edition of Brand, page 317:— 



November 11. 

 Carbaseo snrgens post hunc indutus amictu 

 Mensis, ab antiquis sacra deamque colit. 

 A quo vix avidus sisti'O corapescitur Anser 

 Devotusque satis ubera fert humeris. 



Also, in another Collection : 



November 11. 

 Ligna vehit, mactatque boves, etlaetas ad igoem 



Ebria Martini festa November agit. 

 Ad postem in Sylvam porcos coinpellit, et ipse 

 Pinguibus interea vescitur Anseribus. 



