3-052-767 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Months: June, 1880. '...it is because the summer is all before us that June is the most welcome of all the months in the year. Yes, we are on the threshold of summer. We know it by the click of sheep-shears and the whetting of scythes, by the drowsy hum of insect wings, by the roses that one by one come blushing forth, and, above all, by the soft splendour of the trees. Alas, and do we not painfully know it, too many of us, by a restless shifting on our office chairs as we glance furtively from our blotting-pads to the dusty street, and listen to the seductive whisperings of elfin voices that tell of the wild roses and woodbine which are now hanging in rich festoons among the greenwood trees?' From "Illustrated London News", 1880.