NATURE NEAR LONDON 



search from the bough in the tinted sunlight and 

 under the changing leaf. 



The autumn itself is nutty, brown, hard, frosty, 

 and sweet. Nuts are hard, frosts are hard ; but 

 the one is sweet, and the other braces the strong. 

 Exercise often wearies in the spring, and in the 

 summer heats is scarcely to be faced ; but in 

 autumn, to those who are well, every step is 

 bracing and hardens the frame, as the sap is 

 hardening in the trees. 



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