ACCORDING TO SEASON 



September, the former would seem to us the 

 ones which embodied most vividly the idea of 

 heat and sunlight, while the latter would typify, 

 in a perfectly satisfactory fashion, the colder 

 season. 



I am ready to acknowledge that we are victim- 

 ized sometimes by our sensitiveness to association ; 

 recalling clearly a certain childish conviction that 

 one could recognize Sunday by the peculiarly 

 golden look of its sunlight, and by the long, mys- 

 terious slant of its shadows in the orchard. This 

 delusion — though even yet it hardly seems that — 

 sprang, I suppose, partly from the fact that only 

 on Sunday was one obliged to refrain from a va- 

 riety of enchanting pursuits which at other times 

 proved so absorbing as to preclude any great 

 sensitiveness to the aspects of nature, and partly 

 also from a certain serenity in the moral atmos- 

 phere which so linked itself with the visible sur- 

 roundings as to arouse the belief that the lights 

 and shadows of this one day actually differed in 

 character from those of the other six. Still I can- 

 not but think that not only is the coarseness of 

 habit common to the later flowers suggestive of a 

 defensive attitude in view of a more or less in- 

 clement season, but that their actual colors are 

 less indicative of the heat of summer. 



Surely no autumn field sends upward a multiple 

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