CHAPTER XXXIX 



SINCE AUTUMN HAS COME 



It is no use maklag believe any longer that 

 summer is still here. The flowers that really be- 

 longed to summer are gone. Now autumn has 

 come, and its own flowers are blooming. 



A few autumn flowers were here in summer, 

 nodding their heads to the warm days and perhaps 

 wanting to say: " You'll soon be gone. I'm wear- 

 ing an autumn dress, you see, and my friends are 

 on their way to take your flowers' places." 



Then, perhaps, the summer flowers answered: 

 " We've had a happy play spell and are ready to 

 go now." 



Anyway I noticed that they soon drooped their 

 heads and let their seeds grow very fast. I noticed 

 also that summer flowers had not nearly so many 

 in their families as the autumn ones have, and 

 some of them were a little shy about being seen. 

 Now autumn flowers are not the least bit shy. 

 They love to grow as high and fine as possible, 

 and wave and bob their heads in the wind. They 

 come up in the fields and swamps and sometimes 

 in the woods, but we see them especially along the 

 roadsides. On both banks of the road now there 

 are high beautiful flowers, white and purple and 

 golden. Of course they are quite different from 



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