New Walks in Old Ways 



working hours to take note of what is 

 being recorded by the migration of 

 birds or the fruitions of trees and 

 plants, and it must be admitted that 

 those do not always tell the truth, 

 astronomically speaking; but when 

 the great but somewhat moody centre 

 of our solar system sinks below the 

 horizon there are "markers" that are 

 absolutely dependeable. They may 

 be consulted with perfect assurance. 

 When red Antares hangs low in the 

 southwest, when Arcturus approaches 

 each evening nearer and nearer the 

 wooded western hills, you do not need 

 to be told that the days of the katydids 

 and crickets are nuqibered. When 

 Capella hangs out his great lantern in 

 the far northeast and Aldebaran, with 

 the Pleiades, comes up out of the 

 eastern shadows, you may know to a 

 certainty that it is time to order the 

 coal, no matter what the thermometer 

 may be telling you, and, observing 

 these things, I know that we shall soon 

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