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at times and the little children are alertly 

 watching for the earliest snowflakes. City- 

 dwellers go about much as usual and it little 

 occurs to them to reflect upon Nature's 

 changed aspect along the countryside unless 

 some journey takes them farther from their 

 lanes of asphalt and the groves of brick and 

 mortar. 



And yet there is something restful in the 

 contemplation of November in the country if 

 one may come in from an exhilarating walk 

 over hiU and dale to the crackling open fire 

 that awaits him indoors. There wiU be stories 

 to teU of the little animals we have seen busy 

 at work in the nut woods laying in their winter 

 stores. These are busy times of provisioning 

 for them. The squirrel will be the busiest of 

 all for he hibernates for the shortest time, and 

 he wUl not be minded to wake up to an empty 

 larder. We will watch his antics laughingly, 

 and wonder if we have learned our lesson as 

 well as he has. If our vegetable cellars are 

 well stored we will bear him no grudge. We 

 may well be reminded, though, that if our har- 

 vest, is over there is stiU work for us to do in 

 our gardens. We have probably cellared our 



