NOVEMBER.
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In the " Ravens Almanacke for 1909" by Thos. Decker, there IS quaint description "Auumne, or the Fall of the Leale"-the season which con- tinues into this month "Autumne. the Barber of the yeare, that sheares bushes, hedges, ard trees; the ragged prodigall that consumes al, and leaves himself nothing; the arrantest beggar amongst the foure quarters, and the most diseased as being al- waies troubled with the falling sicknesse this murderer of the spring, this theai to sumnler and bad companion to winter scenes to come in ac- cordng to his old custome, when the sun sits like Justice with pair of scales in his hand, weying no more hours to the day. than he does to the night ,as he did before in his vernall progresse, when he rode on Ram but this bald pated Autumnus vii be seen walking up and down groves, meadows, fields, woods parks, and pastures, blasting of fruits and beating leaves from their trees, when common highways will be strewed with boughes in mocke- ry of summer, and in triumph of her death; and when the doores of Usurers shall be slrewed with greene hearbs, to doe honor to poor Brides that have no dowrie (but their honestie) to their mar riage: when the world looks like old Chaos, and that Plene is turned into penurie, and beatie ln- to uglineSsse; when men ride (the second lime) to Bathe-and when unthrfties fly amongst Hen-spar- rows vet bring home all the feathers they carried out: Then say that Autumne raignes, then IS the true fall of the leafe, because the world, and the yeare urne new leafe."

 At this season of the year." says Sturm, "t the earth, losing the variety ot charms, which so lately beautfed her surface, seems solitary and destitute; and may be compared to tender mother. who has been beref of her dearest children. and is seen 10 mourn and lament. But she is not deprived of all her offspring; here and there plants are seen to brave the rigors of winter, and by their verdure, leve the sterility of the scene. They may present pleasing emblem to the ever durable advantages he possesses, whose mind is amply stored, and whose amable disposition makes all around him smile with joy and pleasure. The splendor of dress and the prousion of ornaments, which dazzle aud

 ascinate the weak and the vulgar, are vain and transitory; coors that vie with the rainbow in brlliancy fade; the pride of youth, beauty smiling with every grace and symmetry of form, futter a. while amid the sunbeams and are seen no more i; but the charms of virtue last forever"