NOVEMBER 241 



When the sun really means business in 

 our part of the country, it makes its appear- 

 ance at half past four in the morning and it 

 gets up in the northeast. It works hard all 

 day, and by the time it leaves for the night 

 at half past seven it has moved around to 

 the northwest. But now in this section of 

 the country the sun is deserting us. It keeps 

 out of sight in the morning until a quarter 

 before seven; then it comes up far south 

 of east, hurries across the sky in a half- 

 hearted kind of a way, keeping low down, 

 and dives under again, far south of the west 

 point, by a quarter before five in the even- 

 ing. Every day the sun gets up later and 

 farther south of east, until just before 

 Christmas, when it will come up in the 

 southeast, will stay out only about nine 

 hours, and slink away again by the time it 

 has crossed over to the southwest. 



. WHEN OUR NIGHTS ARE LONG 



It seems as if the sun were treating us 

 badly, but there are other people in the 

 world, and it is their turn now. Ours will 



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