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Title: The Twelve Months of the Year
with a Picture for each Month. Adapted to Northern Latitudes

Author: Unknown

Release Date: May 21, 2010 [EBook #32476]

Language: English

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THE
TWELVE MONTHS
OF THE
YEAR;

_With a Picture for each Month._

Adapted to Northern Latitudes.

[Illustration]

PORTLAND:
BAILEY & NOYES.

THE
TWELVE MONTHS
OF THE
YEAR;

_With a Picture for each Month_

Adapted to Northern Latitudes.

[Illustration]

PORTLAND:
BAILEY & NOYES.

[Illustration]

Should you like to read something about the months of the year? "How
many months are there?" "Twelve." "How many days are there in each
month?"

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February hath twenty-eight alone,
And all the rest have thirty one;
Except in leap-year, then's the time
That February hath twenty-nine.

[Illustration]

_January._--Now the weather is very cold. There are no leaves upon the
trees. The ground is frozen quite hard. Perhaps it is covered with snow.
Every thing looks very cold and comfortless. A little boy or girl, when
out of humor, reminds me of this month. Bring plenty of wood and make a
good fire, that we may warm ourselves.

[Illustration]

_February_ is a cold month, but the days are getting longer. Now the
crocuses and snow-drops begin to appear. When little boys and girls have
been naughty, how pleasant it is to see them begin to be good again!
Remember, the crocuses and snow-drops do not make themselves grow: it is
God that causes them to grow. So we must look to him to enable us to be
good.

[Illustration]

_March._--The wind blows very hard. Mind it does not blow you away. See,
that tr