THE LEAF. 
In the brilliant month of October, when the pleas¬ 
ant green tints of the grass and foliage, so agreeable 
to the eye during the heat of summer, were changed 
into the gorgeous colors that precede the falling of 
the leaf, Mary went to the beautiful pond with her 
mother, who seemed to feel quite sad to see the 
withered leaves strew the bank and the footpath un¬ 
der it, 
Mary’s little heart was full of hope. She was 
not reminded, like her mother, by the falling of the 
leaves, of many friends who had fallen from the 
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