_the mated pairs of the birds have flocked together_: In domestic geese the mated pairs often live together for life; and among the wild geese this, doubtless, is often true. PAGE 102 _may I be awake to hear you_: In what sense “awake”? _The wild geese are passing--southward_: the end of the autumn, the sign that winter is here. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A End of Project Gutenberg's The Fall of the Year, by Dallas Lore Sharp