FEBRUARY 



There's perfume upon every wind, 

 Music in every tree, 

 Dews for the moisture-loving flowers, 

 Sweets for the sucking-bee. 



N. P. WILLIS. 



EVEN as January in northern India may be 

 compared to a month made up of English May 

 days and March nights, so may the Indian 

 February be likened to a halcyon month com- 

 posed of sparkling, sun-steeped June days and 

 cool starlit April nights. 



February is the most pleasant month of the 

 whole year in both the Punjab and the United 

 Provinces ; even November must yield the 

 palm to it. The climate is perfect. The nights 

 and early mornings are cool and invigorating ; 

 the remainder of each day is pleasantly warm ; 

 the sun's rays, although gaining strength day 

 by day, do not become uncomfortably hot 

 save in the extreme south of the United 

 Provinces. The night mists, so characteristic 



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