AUTUMN 



a part of these in numerous small 

 caches in the ground, sometimes for- 

 getting where he placed his precious 

 food. 



Along the path just north of the gap 

 the Neighbour found the old sugar 

 maple a flame of colour. Each bough 

 had been touched with red and gold, 

 shading to green on' the inner branches 

 near the trunk. Each species of maple 

 was coloured according to its kind, 

 standing in contrast to the green and 

 soft gold of the beeches, as yet only 

 beginning to show their colour. Here a 

 single bough of maple, all aflame with 

 ruddy flre, reached down nearly to the 

 ground, while a few feet away a young 

 water maple stood garbed in palest 

 yellow. As yet few leaves had fallen 

 to cover the dark russet of the old 

 leaves, but red berries of the jack-in- 

 the-pulpit grew plentifully about, add- 

 ing their richness to Autumn's already 

 abundant store of colours. Creeping 

 vines were turned to a bright red, 

 mingling with the leaves of trees, about 

 which they were entwined. Over the 

 fence in the centre where the hard 

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