The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-08-10
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CALENDAR FOR AUGUST.
"rhe TARxsR's life displays In every part
A moral lesson W the sensual heart"

A moral lesson 70 the sensual heart"
August, the las, Of The Summer months.
has come the fulness Of the year has past
the wheat and some other importan, crops,
are gathered; and though the potatoes, and
other roots. the apples, the buck wheat and
the golden corn remain TO be harvested
ye, the flush and fulness Of the year are
gone. Like a beautiful woman, just pas,
her prime, when the vigor Of health and
fulness Of outline are so impercepibly
touched as only TO add new chains, so the
vegetable kingdom compensaies US for the
loss Of its robust habit in thousand beau.
tiiul and un,housh, Of shades and shapes
Indeed, ",he whole face Of Nature has un-
dergone, since last month, an obvious
change; obvious TO those who deligh, 10
observe all her changes and operations, but
no, sufficiently striking to insist on being
seen generally by those who can read no
characters but such rs are written in a icrt
hand. II the general eolOrs Of all the va
rious departments Of natural scenery are
no, changed, their hues are and IL there is
no, yet observable the infinite variety Of au.
tum, there is rs little the extreme mono,ony
of summer. The woods, rs we'll as the
single timber trees that occasionally start
up with such fine effect in the midst Of
meadows and corn.felos, we shall now find
sprinkled with what Of first looks like
CLEANS Of scattered sunshine lying among
the leaves, but what, on examination, we
shall find to be the new foliage that has
been pu, forth since midsummer. and which
ye, retains all the brillian, green Of the
spring."
As we said OF July, so we say Of this
mon,h--it is peculiarly Aucrsr-like. The
general appearance Of the country is unlike
iha, Of any other season. The mornings
and evenings are sometimes little chilly,
then close, damp, muggy," and hot, with
kind Of sufIoca,ing influence on the sick,
while the elarins sun at noon burns with
feyen, heat. These are the joyous hours.
however, Of the locusis, whose intense
earnes,noss OF song is only less fierce than
the sun itself, and wakes the tired laborer
too soon from his accustomed lap nj noon.
The air glis,ens with the radiatcj heat,
fowls drop their wings, cattle stand in pools
or seek the shade OF some friendly tree,
standing sipgly on elevated land, where ev-
cry breath may cool their heated Sides
Dogs may plunge into the waters, while the
cat seeks some dark corner, where neither
sun or dies will torment, and sleeps quietly
away the day. Young cocks begin To crow
Justify, ohen starting their pitch" good
deal too high, and break down before they
have accomplished half the scale. Young
biterns occasionally show their javelin-like
bills above the high grass, on the lookout
for danger. as they leave their native mead
ows for some wider field Ofac,ion. Cricke,s
chirp solemnly in the evening, children
crunch gteen apples and hate to SO 10 bed,
though the latter only Is not peculiar to the
season.
Those who observe, will notice iha, Au.
gust is no, July or September; ,ha, ], has
its appropriate functions. as have all the
other Months, and that ], is devoted 10 the
discharge f,hem.
All is Avgu,,.like. The birds have
reared their young, and taught them, 70
psfet,ioa, how TO Ay, how TO provide their
food, how. in their turn, TO build and lay
and rear their young, and when TO leave
their native land and fee 10 kindlier skies
,ha, is, they have attained all they need to
enable them TO fulfil the object Of their ex-
i,iancs. Brief lessons, yet how perfectly
acquired, and how cOmps,snt TO enable
them 10 crafty their wants. aH .. .0.
The Dog-Siar RACES. The air seems to
lose lie freshness and elas,icisy--,he heal
Is more oppressive than sver-man and hs
sinmals gsttiisd sooner than in July. and The