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IN AUTUMN. 



with the dew in the morning, you may keep them 

 dry for the rest of the day." It is a comfort to 

 know that a modicum of truth lies in some of 

 the sayings in everybody's mouth ; and certainly 

 a dewy morn is likely to be followed by a dry 

 and sunny noon. Nevertheless, do not expect 

 to notch off your three score and ten years with- 

 out a failure in these sayings. Euripides never 

 hit the nail more squarely on the head than when 

 he wrote 



What to-morrow is to be 

 Human wisdom never learns. 



Sooner or later in October we have frost. 

 The beautiful dewy morning two days ago was 

 followed to-day by a no less beautiful morning ; 

 but the meadows were gray with frost. Says 

 the physical geography : " When the weather is 

 cold, so that but little vapor can be carried in 

 the air, the dew-point may be below 32 degrees 

 Fahrenheit. In this event what is deposited is 

 solid frost." 



The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, 



and whatever it might have killed it compensated 

 therefor by adding life to the air. Despite its 

 beauty, the country was reeking with an un- 

 seen, unsuspected poison, but one none the less 

 sure in its fell effects. How different to-day! 

 There is evidence of vigor so widely spread that 



