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Show . AUGUST. There 19 no month in the whole year in which nature wears a more beautiful beauti-ful appearance than in the month of August. Spring has many beauties, and May is a fresh and blooming month, but the charms of this time of year are enhanced en-hanced by their contrast with the winter win-ter sealon. August has no such advantage. advan-tage. It comes when w remember nothing noth-ing but clear skies, green fields and sweet-smelling flowers when the recollection recol-lection of snow and ice and bleak winds has faded from onr minds as completely complete-ly as they have disappeared from the earth and vet what a pleasant time it is! Orchards and corn fields ring with the bum of labor; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit, which bow their branches to the ground; and the corn, piled in graceful sheaves are waving in every, light breath that sweeps about it, as if it wooed the sickle, tinges the landscape with a golden hue. A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth; the influence of the season seems to extend ex-tend itself to the very wagon, whose slow motion across the well-reaped field is perceptible only to the eye, but strikes with no harsh sound upon the ear. Pickwick Papers. |