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THE FALL OF THE YEAR 



VIII 



You ought to see how the muskrats, too, get ready 

 for the winter, and the bees and the flowers and the 

 trees and the frogs — everything. Winter is coming. 

 The cold will kill — if it has a chance. But see how 

 it has no chance. How is it that the bees will buzz, 

 the flowers open, the birds sing, the frogs croak 

 again next spring as if there had been no freezing, 

 killing weather ? Go out and see why for yourselves. 



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You ought to see the tiny seed " birds " from the 

 gray birches, scattering on the autumn winds; the 

 thistledown, too ; and a dozen other of the winged, 

 and plumed, and ballooned, seeds that 

 sail on the wings of the 

 winds. You should see the 

 burdock burs in the 

 cows' tails when 



they come 

 home from the 

 pasture, and the 

 stick-tights and beggar- 

 needles in your own 

 coat-tails when you come 

 home from the pastures. And 

 seeing that, you should think 

 — for that is what real see- 



