112 AUTUMN NOTES IN IOWA 



is possibly still the most famous of his tribe, at 

 least so far as long abiding with man is concerned. 

 Before Gilbert White took it into his personal 

 keeping, it had been ''at home" for thirty years 

 with a single family in a seaside county. 



Lawrence, Kansas, October 28, 1913. 



The twenty-fifth here was a typical golden Octo- 

 ber day, with summery temperature, bugs flying, 

 and a monarch butterfly fluttering on a dandelion 

 blossom; though the skies clouded early in the 

 evening and a wild goose wandering above the 

 electric lights cackled in prophecy of change. The 

 next day enough snow fell to robe lawns and roofs, 

 but it soon passed into rain. Some hours before 

 noon today flurries of heavy damp snow began to 

 fall. A little later sleet came pattering on the 

 windows and heaping up on the roofs ; then snow 

 again, which fell nearly all the afternoon, driven 

 before a cold north wind, covering lawns and 

 streets, resting on the heavy green foliage of the 

 pear trees, stripping the final foliage from the 

 ashes, and making a strange background for the 

 golden elms and hard maples. 



From many other parts of the country early 

 snows have been reported. On the fourteenth in 

 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, snow fell on the 

 unharvested cranberry bogs, destrojdng, growers 

 estimated, fiftv thousand barrels of the berries. 



