THE YELLOW AND GOLD MONTH
APRIL —the y£llow and gold month, the time of mellow-hued flowers and flying autumn-tinted leaves, bright-skinned apples and plump, ripe pears. In our country April is wrongly named, for, instead of being an “opener,” uncovering the secrets of spring, she comes in the guise of a gleaner gathering in the harvest of the year. In the leafy places she is a wanton, stripping branches hare and flinging her booty to the four winds, but in the apple house she counts her store with wisdom in her topaz eyes. At her first appearance she begins playing pranks on us. How many of you suecumbed to her wiles yesterday ? She puts tickets on our backs and soap in the butter dish: she sends us on ridiculous errands and laughs at our discomfiture; she does all manner of things to test our good nature, then, satisfied that the world is quite a pleasant place, she takes up her residence for a brief thirty days. Soon, Winter, the Greybeard, will follow in lier wake with his bleak dawns and chilly eves, but there will still be memories of the yellow and gold month that defies Father Time with laughter, loveliness and a song. REDFEATHER.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 14
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205THE YELLOW AND GOLD MONTH Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 937, 2 April 1930, Page 14
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