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Hammocks on the porches,

Idleness all day.

Golfing on the meadows,

Bathing in the sea,

Surely for a monarch

You’d be glad of me.

Jury.[With great disapproval.]

Ninety in the shade—

Never you, fair maid!

[Exit August.]

[Music. “School Days.”]

[Enter Herald and September.]

Herald. The Jury knows School-day September.

September. [Recites.]

You know me well for I’m the day

When school begins and stops your play;

When packing up your books, you go

Where you must study—

Jury.[Interrupting.] Oh, oh, oh!

We never could have you for king—

Why, that would be a dreadful thing!

[Exit September.]

[Music. “October’s Bright Blue Weather.” Modern Music Reader, Book II.]

[Enter Herald and October.]

Herald. Honorable judges, Golden October.

October.[Recites.]

I’m the month of wonderful color—to me

Belongs the beauty of changing tree.

Nuts drop for my friends on the countryside,

And over the landscape far and wide

I spread the loveliest purple haze

To soften the sun on my warmest days.

While over the meadows, growing brown,