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the other six months showers occur almost daily. It is never hot — never 
very cool, and you may wear your cloak or your summer dress the 
whole year according to the temper of your nervous system. One 
side of the street is always too warm at noon. Cold and sleeting as it is 
here in January, the roses are already blooming freshly in the gardens 
of Mexico. Nor is there perceptible change of foliage on the forest trees ; 
tlie new leaves push off the old ones with a " gentle force," and the 
regeneration of the seasons is effected without the process of fading, wilt- 
ing, withering and dying, which makes with us the melancholy days of 
autumn " the saddest of the year." 
To look at the external world, you would say there was no such thing 
as death in Mexico. The rose and the leaf you admire to-day, are 
replaced to-morrow, by fresh buds and renewed verdure. 
