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THE FALL OF THE YEAR 



VIII 



You ought to see how the muskrats, too, get ready 

 for the winter, and the bees and the flowers and the 

 trees and the frogs everything. Winter is coming. 

 The cold will kill if it has a chance. But see how 

 it has no chance. How is it that the bees will buzz, 

 the flowers open, the birds sing, the frogs croak 

 I again next spring as if there had been no freezing, 

 killing weather ? Go out and see why for yourselves. 



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You ought to see the tiny seed " birds " from the j 

 gray birches, scattering on the autumn winds; the / 

 thistledown, too; and a dozen other of the winged, j 

 and plumed, and ballooned, seeds that 

 If sail on the wings of the ~ * ^ L^v u 



winds. You should see the * 

 burdock burs in the 

 coW tails ^ g ^ ^ m 



they come 

 home from thef 

 pasture, and the I 

 stick-tights and beggar-j 

 needles in your own 

 coat-tails when you come, 

 home from the pastures. And 

 seeing that, you should think 

 for that is what real see- 



