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The Golleetors' Monthly. 



FOR THOSE INTERESTED IKJ KATCMtAli HIKTOHY. 



Vol. i. Danielsonville, Conn., November, 1890. No. 1. 



The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, 



Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. 



Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the Autumn leaves lie dead; 

 They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the Rabbit's tread ; 



The Robin and Wren have flown, and from the shrub the Jay, 



And from the wood-top calls the Crow through all the gloomy day. — Bm ant. 



CHILLY NOVEMBER, 



The leaves are falling to the ground. The branches are stripped of their verdure, and 

 the winds of Autumn chant the sad requiem of the dying year. Birds of passage are now 

 seen in large flocks, embarking with slow wing but earnest purpose, on their annual 

 pilgrimage to a more genial clime. The wild-flowers that have kept us company so long, 

 and have cheered us amid the general desolation of nature, are now taking their leave, like 

 the last lingering friends who hover around the departing bark of the voyager, and one by 

 one disappear, with a sad and long farewell. The naked orchard, the barren fields and 

 gardens, and the moaning forests unequivocally declare that the season of warmth and 

 fertility has departed. Already are the little lakes crystalizing beneath the cold breath of 

 the North, and the ground is whitened by the early frost. The mountain tops are barren, 

 and the grass ha s withered. The long evenings are enjoyed by Naturalists, Ornithologists, 

 Scientists, Collectors and Taxidermists, by seating themselves in the old arm chair 

 around the hearth-stone, and carefully perusing the contents, of the good things contained 

 in tnis, The Collectors' Monthly. 



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