Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Book of Days, Vol. 2 of 2: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection With the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, and History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character
How tempting those great ripe round-bellied gooseberries look on a hot July da we wonder there is one left on the bushes, w en we see so many children about! The red currants too, han down like dro s of rich carnelian while the blac currants 100 like t zebony beads, half-hidden by their fragrant eaves-for all the early garden-fruits are now ripe to perfection. Down the long rows the pretty strawberries pee out, shewing hke red-breasted robins at hide-ant seek under the foliage; while overhead the melting cherries hang down, leading even the very birds to commit trespass, for they cannot resist such a tempting banquet. Sweet Summer has now attained her perfect loveliness; the roses on her cheeks will never look more beautiful than they do now, nor will her sky-blue eyes ever beam with sweeter lustre. She has wreathed her sunny hair with the sweetest and fairest of ?owers; and when they have faded, there will be no more found to ma e a frame of blossoms round her matchless countenance until the leaves of Autumn have fallen, white Winter awakened from his coldverdant meadows and listening to the birds in the adjoining ove that seemed to have a friendly contention wit an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near the brow of that primrose-hill.
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