The Fall of the Year

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Sharp Dallas Lore. The Fall of the Year

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. THE CLOCK STRIKES ONE

CHAPTER II. ALONG THE HIGHWAY OF THE FOX

CHAPTER III. IN THE TOADFISH’S SHOE

CHAPTER IV. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO SEE THIS FALL

CHAPTER V. WHIPPED BY EAGLES

CHAPTER VI. THANKSGIVING AT GRANDFATHER’S FARM

CHAPTER VII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO DO THIS FALL

CHAPTER VIII. THE MUSKRATS ARE BUILDING

CHAPTER IX. THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW

CHAPTER X. AN OUTDOOR LESSON

CHAPTER XI. LEAFING

CHAPTER XII. A CHAPTER OF THINGS TO HEAR THIS FALL

CHAPTER XIII. HONK, HONK, HONK!

NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS

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THE clock of the year strikes one! – not in the dark silent night of winter, but in the hot light of midsummer.

It is a burning July day, – one o’clock in the afternoon of the year, – and all is still around the fields and woods. All is still. All is hushed. But yet, as I listen, I hear things in the dried grass, and in the leaves overhead, going “creepy-creep,” as you have heard the little mouse in the silent night.

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But we have a great deal to do, and we can’t get any of it done by drifting. Nor can we get it done by lying, as I am lying, outstretched upon the warm earth this July day. Already the sun has passed overhead; already the cattle are up and grazing; already the round shadow of the oak tree begins to lie long across the slope. The noon hour is spent. I hear the quivering click-clack of a mowing-machine in a distant hay field. The work of the day goes on. My hour of rest is almost over, my summer vacation is nearly done. Work begins again to-morrow.

But I am ready for it. I have rested outstretched upon the warm earth. I have breathed the sweet air of the woods. I have felt the warm life-giving sun upon my face. I have been a child of the earth. I have been a brother to the stone and the bird and the beetle. And now I am strong to do my work, no matter what it is.

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