than these printed words can tell.

The wise men who saw them said, "There go the Royal Citheronia and his
bride." And Mother Carey smiled as she saw their bliss, and remembered
the Hickory Horn-devil.

FOOTNOTE:

[B] Let the Guide illustrate with some local measure.

THINGS TO SEE IN AUTUMNTIME

[Illustration: The Purple and Gold of Autumn]

Things to See in Autumntime

TALE 38

The Purple and Gold of Autumn

There was once an old gentleman named Father Time, and he had four
beautiful daughters.

The eldest was called Winter Time. She was tall and pale. She dressed
chiefly in white wool trimmed with wonderful lacework. She was much
admired by some, but others considered her very cold and distant. And
most agreed that she was the least winsome of the sisters.

The second one was called Spring Time, and she was dressed in beautiful
golden-green satin. She had a gentle, sunny disposition; some thought
her the loveliest.

The third was Summer Time, and her robe was dark-green velvet. She was
warm-hearted and most attractive, full of life and energy, and as unlike
the eldest sister as possible.

The youngest was Autumn Time. She certainly was a wonderful creature,
with red rosy cheeks, plump form, and riotous good spirits. Her robes
were gorgeous and a little extravagant, for she wore a new one every
day, and of all that she had, the one that she loved the best and wore
the latest was of purple and gold. We can go out in October and see the
purple and gold, and gather some scraps of the robe, for it is on every
wayside and every hillside.

TALE 39

Why the Chicadee Goes Crazy Twice a Year

A long time ago, when it was always summer in our woods, the Chicadees
lived merrily with their cousins, and frolicked the whole year round.
But one day Mother Carey sent the small birds a warning that they must
move to the South, when the leaves fell from the trees, for hard frost
and snow were coming, and maybe starvation too.

All the cousins of the Chicadees listened to the warning and got ready
to go; but Tomtit, their leader, only laughed and turned a dozen wheels
around a twig that served him for a bar.

"Go to the South?" said he. "Not I; I am too happy here; and as for
frost and snow, I never saw any, and I don't believe there are such
things."

Very soon the leaves fell from the trees and the Nut-hatches and the
King-wrens were so busy getting ready to go that the Chicadees left off
pla