COUNTRY LIFE
WE have all said good-bye to September with regret. It is often one of the best of months—with its trees still green looking down on yellow harvests, with its conjunction of the open and close seasons (for buntings were breeding when partridges were being shot) ; with its gorgeous butter- flies on the increasing splendour of garden asters, or Michaelmas daisies, with its soft mists and gossamer carpets—but this passing September has brought such warmth that the fruit harvest almost coincided with the corn harvest, which was among the best—in Denmark they said the very best—in the records. There are countrymen who prophesy an excep- tionally cold winter—partly from the early movements of duck to the south—but no one has yet established any good ground for such distant forecasts. As to frosts, the first of any severity have more than once been recorded on October 17th. October entered this year with a very slight ground frost, immediately forgotten in days of midsummer warmth and carpets of gossamer.
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