The Gavelyte, January 1906

']!}DARVILLE COLLE rn. the early pring, to be greeted by beautiful in the following month . the merry s ngstecs at our windows, It is in th autumn days, wh n it warbling their waking song? Then begins to grow cold, that the foliag there are the trees, the green leaves of th tree is turn d to bright red ju t bur tin 6 forth, with the little and orange. oon th leaves begin birds flitting out and in among the to fall, leaving the trees bar and branche ', choosin 6 a place for their I brown. Then it is that nature giv ummer home:. Below are the fields, to the mother earth, a cov ring and some covered with green grass, where shelter for the cold days to follow. the herds of sheep and cattle are The snow falls in large white flakes grazing; others are perhaps already that come tumbling down from the plowed to receive the grain for the cloude and forms a warm oft blank– summer harvest. All nature seems et for fit::ld and wood. This, no at her best. doubt, is the most beautiful sight of But this is only one of the many alJ. The branche of the trees, left beautiful scenes of nature. As the bare and empty by the leaves, now summer approaches, the verdure be- eovered with ice and snow, bending comes more luxuriant, and we see I down to the ground; the ~mall shr~bs many beautiful things. The many and bushe all covered with a white different kinds of birds come back mantle; and the blue jays hopping from their winter homes, and dart about on the snow, truly make a throught the foliage of the trees. lovely scene. The woods and valleys are decked A we observe all the e works of with various kinds of blossoms; while · nature, we can see that they were down in the cool ponds and streams given to us not simply to afford us the fish are swimming about. All is pleasure, but that we might derive joy and gladness. Word:, cannot some benefit from them. Do not all - describe the beautiful sunrise and these beauties show that there is some sunset at such seasons of the year. power back of these things, guiding The eastern ~ky is red and rosy early and planning them? This is one in the morning, and after a long blessing, for it points out a Superior _ bright day, Lhe sun disappears again, Being who has the power to do all ·just as Luna and the twinkling stars this. And too, it is well for us, in are seen in the clear blue hE>avens the toil of every day duties, to leave abov . our work, long enough to observe 'l'hl~ works of nature are just as some of these beautiful things around