XXV 



THEOUGH THE YEAR IN A LITTU; GABDEN 



JANUARY 



A 'HAPPY New Year — a new year 

 whose coming season of lovely flow- 

 ers, luxuriant verdure and fields of 

 the green of growing things will make us for- 

 get the stillness and bleakness of white winter- 

 time, when all the earth seems sleeping, and 

 when the creaking of the frost crystals under- 

 foot, as we step forth these crisp mornings, al- 

 most startles us with a sense of the loss that 

 seems ours since yesterday's beautiful Sum- 

 mer was gently led by the hand of Autimm to 

 this Wintry couch. We were wont to wend 

 our way through August's woodlands and if a 

 twig snapped at our step it only seemed to 

 awaken an echo caught up by the rustling of 

 leaves, the mvirmur of the clear waters of the 



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