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AUTUMN, WINTER, EASTER AND DEPARTURE.
Autumn had come, and this season of the year, which afterwards was to be the most fraught with suffering, at that time seemed perhaps the pleasantest; for none afforded a better opportunity for wrestling and playing.

It brought delicious fruit, and never was the fire lighted more frequently on the hearth in the plots of ground assigned to the pupils--baking and boiling were pleasant during the cool afternoons.
No month seemed to us so cheery as October.

During its course the apples and pears were gathered, and an old privilege allowed the pupils "to glean"-- that is, to claim the fruit left on the trees.

This tested the keenness of our young eyes, but it sometimes happened that we confounded trees still untouched with those which had been harvested.