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Gayest Time of All the Changing Year
Trees are changing col 1', yellow corn on ear. '
Autumn is the gayest time of the changing year.
In a gay procession seasons quickly fly——
Spring and Summer, Autilmn, Winter, one by one pass by,
Then they start all over, with a whoop and cheer.
Making difi‘erent change of scene, and another year.
Little sister says that Autumn leaves are too beautiful for
anything. She gathers them and decorates the house with them.
THE Kl'l'lEN THAT commit BE FOUND
B RIDGET came running into the same result. Alice/and Jackie were And Tie was short. not tall and m
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I am the Autumn Queen. See my really wonderful crown of
Autumn leaves. All little children should gather big bunches of
bright ones and adorn their homes.
WHY inguiiunlwlnwclmrjncrVHOME
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M W! mm" me in: towards her. Margie lx-v said to the nesting place of a bevy of notey Bring the bunting!
swallows. . While the squirrelsind the owls
“I in so sorry. mother." Alice's lit-
tle lips twitched. "I wanted a kitty so
badly to feed it."
“Well, never mind, dearie." I said:
“let's. give the birds a feast instead."
floppy Toad just “hat the lady with
the rod parasol had said to her;
"My goodness! where are you going,
lloppy Toad?"
And the wild guinea fowls.
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Roosts are hunting.
mgr; high and
Yet it's not without cheer
“'hen the. north wind is here,
And snow's falling—
. to slide! “I'm not goinz. I‘m coming." an-
swered Hoppy Toad.
"Oh!" said Margie Lee.
“I ran away." said lloppy Toad. RadiOgrams t'p the chimney sparks fly.
windowpane! "I ran away. too," said Margie Lee, _ . And. the teakettle's spry
-. “My“; to rare, "Then if I were in your plare I” Little messages from on high At its boiling:
. -thrpl would go back home. as fast as l e we C . S Slipping down beneath the. sky
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"Why?" asked Margie L69. When I danced so Hull! and Ira) That they eurisiod lam: and drop. thi try it once yourself. Who can 599 with magic eyes Little sheaves of messages At its Diem.“
,. - "It's not half as mmzh fun as you With the sunny yellow cnmstnlks While cunninc little bunny if you dimer :1 dance “iih cornstalks The wonder {hints that are’round us, On a drifting leaf that says: There's enough and to spare ,
.mn Leaves think." said Hoppy Toad. “\ou see. \V hiie the moon shone bright as Twmklml fast his liny feet. You may meet a little elf. And yet not feel surprise. "Mother Earth needs blankets gay F0, the fowls of the air—-
Margie Lee, I “"9 ln 3'01" garden. day. ' (COURTESYVPHILADELI’HIA Retake) For the coming Winter day," Ten or tu‘enty!
Autumn
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‘“ "‘ “mm“ Sammie Squirrel and Bunnie Bun
Are ecampering 'round and having fun.
Dame Nature's spreading at our feet
A lot of things all good to eat;
. They're gathering in their Winter‘s store 80 come and gather gather in ' g 1 $326 through lanes 0‘ elm.
' " ”me 0! nuts and thin s in heaps galore. h an '- ' - birch-
1...: Z . T e nuts d apples, fill your b111- ‘nd oak and maple at the sky?
mum: autumn As though through shined 4 .
windows high.
F au'y' Quilts
The fairies pieced quilts last i...
" I fear their stitches are not tight.
For patterns shift with every . ~
They spread them underiflthe x ‘
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Sunset
The sun is a ball or are. no 1-
It drops in ocean blue, ' Z5 '
Why don't the water put it on}?
I wonder, so do you.
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