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THE year used once to begin in March. That was simple and natural-to let it start on its course with the first warmer breath of returning spring. It begins now in January-which has nothing to recommend it. I am not sure that Nature does not show us it really begins on the first of October.
"October! " you cry, "when all is changing and dying! when trees shed their leaves, when creepers crimson, when summer singers desert our woods, when flowers grow scanty in field or hedgerow! What promise then of spring? What glad signs of a beginning?"