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A YEAR WITH NATURE. 



month are the Hips and Haws, Sloes, Blackberries, Bullaces, 

 Cloud-berries, Bilberries, Alsgame, Cranberries, Mountain Ash, 

 Butcher's Broom, Holly, Ivy, Privet, the scarlet berries of 

 the Woody Nightshade, Wild Cornel, Bird Cherry, and so on. 

 The Spindle tree, too, attracts our attention more than at any 

 other time because of its beautiful waxen seed vessels. 



Above us the clouds appear heavy and miserable, rolling on 

 and on with hardly any change. How different to the blue 

 June sky and the glorious July sunset. We pass a man carry- 



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A PAIR OF BARN OWLS (WINTER PLUMAGE.) 



ing faggots, and in a friendly chat with us the old fellow gives 

 it as his opinion that we shall have a mild, or, as the case 

 may be, a severe Winter. 



During this month mention should be made of those animals 

 that store up food for the Winter, and amongst others may be 

 mentioned the Squirrel, Hedgehog, Dormouse, and Long Tailed 

 Field Mouse. A store of food is always at hand and as many 

 as five hundred nuts and acorns have been taken out of a 

 storehouse of one of the animals named. 



