AUGUST overran her latest boundaries by 

 at least two weeks, after which October 

 sent out an advance cluster of days; but at last 

 all intruders are routed and September enters tri- 

 umphantly, though tardily, upon her legal in- 

 heritance. 



Do you remember the feather-strewn condition 

 of these paths as we strolled through them a 

 month ago? The wind and the gardener's rake 

 have long since removed all moulting evidences, 

 but a picturesque disorder of another kind pre- 

 vails; for nature has begun her autumn grand 

 menage, and this first scattering of the leaves 

 represents the opening of the gigantic undertak- 

 ing. 



At the season of farewells she is particularly 

 partial to brilliant effects, as you see by these 

 occasional gay evidences among the shrubs and 



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