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Rh Bassett's Scrap Book;

SCRAPS OF HISTORY, FACT AND HUMOR OFFICIAL ORGAN LEAGUE OF AMERICAN WHEELMEN

Entered as Second-Class Matter, March 1v., 1904, at the Post Office at Boston, Mass., uuder the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Vol. 6 No. 6 AUGUST, 1908 5 Cents.

AUGUST IN POESY LAND.

The August cloud, suddenly Melts into streams of rain.

-Bryant.

In the parching August wind, Cornfields bow the head, Sheltered in round valley depths On low hills outspread.

— Rossetti.

My next and last is August fiery hot (For much the Southward Sun abateth not) This Moneth he keeps with Virgo for a space, The dryed Earth is parched with his face. August of great Augustus took its name, Rome's second Emperor of lasting fame.

— Anne Bradstreet.

And from the hot field's farthest edge The cricket's soft refrain With mellow accent tells the tale That August's here again.

— Helen Maria Winslow,

Buttercup nodded, and said "Good-by;" Clover and daisy went off together; But the fragrant water lilies lie Yet moored in the golden August weather.

— Celia Thaxter.