Autumn Days. Fas

 

him that uncle, being six feet high,
didn’t expect to grow any more;
and, of course, as I said before, if
Alick’s papa stood still, the time
would seem to go very quickly.

And so, I suppose, when the
end of October came, he didn’t
cry out as we did all of a sudden:
“T do declare it is not quite two
months to Christmas !”

‘It was one damp, misty after-
noon, and Lottie, and Alick, and
I were learning our lessons all
alone in the school-roo. We
were trying to get the last glimmer
of daylight at the window, but it
was hardly enough to see what six