MAY . . . . . . . . 79
JUNE . . . . . . . 103
JULY . . . . . . . 116
AUGUST . . . . . . 136
SEPTEMBER . . . . . 152
OCTOBER . . . . . . 165
NOVEMBER . . . . . 178
DECEMBER . . . . . 189
GLOSSARY . . . . . 199
INDEX . . . . . . . 201




JANUARY

Up--let us to the fields away,
And breathe the fresh and balmy air.
MARY HOWITT.


Take nine-and-twenty sunny, bracing English May days, steal from March
as many still, starry nights, to these add two rainy mornings and
evenings, and the product will resemble a typical Indian January. This
is the coolest month in the year, a month when the climate is
invigorating and the sunshine temperate. But even in January the sun's
rays have sufficient power to cause the thermometer to register 70
degrees in the shade at noon, save on an occasional cloudy day.

Sunset is marked by a sudden fall of temperature. The village smoke