124 Autumn Days.

 

think of it, that months don’t seem
so never-ending to grown-up people
as they do to children; they are
more prepared to see the time fly,
you don’t know how, so they are
not surprised when they find it
gone. Besides, you see, they don’t
get taller and taller as the months
pass, so, of course, the time must
seem to run past very quickly, they
standing still all the while! How
odd it must be! I heard a little
boy remonstrating last night—
“Well, but, uncle, if you keep
your clothes till next year they'll be
ever so much too small for you!”

Everybody laughed, and _ told