XIII. 



PREPARING FOR WINTER QUARTERS, 



OCTOBER has come, bringing labors abundant 

 in the garden. Every day now may be made 

 to tell, not only on the success of the coming 

 summers, but of coming years. But work 

 is play in the cool, brilliant days of this 

 most beautiful month, and every inhalation 

 of the bracing air over the fresh-turned earth 

 means health and longer life. If ministers 

 and brain-workers generally could manage to 

 spend October in the varied labors now required 

 in their own gardens, they would not break 

 down much under a century. I say their own, 

 for I doubt whether the exercise would be as 

 beneficial in some one else's garden. The work 



