SEPTEMBER. 
WEET is the voice that calls 
From babbling waterfalls, 
In meadows where the downy seeds 
are flying: 
And soft the breezes blow. 
And eddying come and go, 
In faded gardens where the Rose 
is dying. 
A m ong the stubbled corn 
The blithe quail pipes at morn. 
The merry partridge drums in hidden places. 
And glittering insects gleam 
Above the reedy stream 
"Where busy spiders spin their filmy laces. 
At eve, cool shadows fall 
Across the garden wall, 
And on the clustered grapes to purple turning: 
And pearly vapors lie 
Along the eastern sky. 
Where the broad harvest-moon is redly burning. 
Ah. soon on field and hill, 
The winds shall whistle shrill. 
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together 
To fly from frost and snow, 
And seek for lands where blow 
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather. 
The pollen-dusted bees 
Search for the honey-lees 
That liuger in the last flowers of September, 
While plaintive mourning doves 
Coo sadly to their loves 
Of the dead summer they so well remember. 
The crickets chirp all day, 
“ O fairest summer stay ! ” 
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning; 
The wild-fowl fly afar 
Above the foamy bar 
And hasten southward ere the skies a re frowning. 
Now comes a fragrant breeze 
Through the dark, cedar-trees, 
And round about my temples fondly lingers 
In gentle playfulness, 
Like to the soft caress 
Bestowed in happier days by loving fingers. 
Yet, though a sense of grief 
Comes with the falling leaf, 
And memory makes the summer doubly pleasant, 
In all my autumn dreams 
A future summer gleams, 
Passing the fairest gloried of the present! 
—George Arnold. 
IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
i. 
Why we Wext. 
We were staying at Uncle Thaddeus’ farm in Ver¬ 
mont, when one day Uncle Thaddeus went to the village 
to get the mail, and among the letters which fell to our 
share was one from an old classmate of Aristarchus, 
Tom Furguson by name. Aristarchus brightened visibly 
during the perusal of this letter, and I felt a premoni¬ 
tion that something was to come of it. 
“ Look here, Cordelia,” he exclaimed excitedly, “ Fer¬ 
guson is going to the Adirondacks and wants me to go 
with him; he will start the day after to-morrow if I will 
go, and will be gone about three weeks; when we get 
up there we shall hire a guide and a tent and all tilings 
needful, and goi off and camp out, and have a glorious 
old time! ” 
• “ We,” I repeated; “ that sounds as if you were going. 
I never saw such a fellow for always wanting to go 
somewhere! A journey no more comes amiss to you 
than candy to a child.” 
“Why, if you don’t approve, Cordelia, of course I 
shall not think of going. But there is nothing like 
camping out for one’s health, and Furguson is the best 
fellow in the world to go with, he has had so much ex¬ 
perience; and you and the children are already estab- 
lis'oed here at uncle’s, where you could be well taken. 
care of and continue to enjoy the delights of farm-life, 
so I could feel perfectly easy about you; then I may 
never have so good an opportunity for going again, I am 
out of work just now and—” 
“Do go, Aristarchus!” I exclaimed pettishly, “but 
for goodness sake don’t bury me inextricably under a six- 
foot pile of arguments before you go! Go and tele¬ 
graph to Furguson, and I will pack up your things.” 
Furguson had written that “ store clothes ” would not 
be required at the Adirondacks, so the packing amounted 
to little, except for the medicines which I put up for 
him, but I had a vast amount of advice concerning the 
care of his health and innumerable directions for ad¬ 
ministering the medicines, which I felt obliged to pack 
away in his brain, and which cost mo much time and 
trouble. 
I put up for him Jamaica ginger, cough balsam, 
cholera mixture, powders of all sorts, salves, court-plas¬ 
ter and linen bandages, and various other things which 
I don’t at this momept recall, which, with the advice 
and directions, caused him to declare that he was pre¬ 
pared for every emergency except hanging; he shouldn’t 
know what to do in case of being hung! I advised him 
to hang until he found out. 
