This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
A term applied in the United States to the period of mild weather which nearly always comes at the close of October, extending sometimes to the middle of November. It is rainless and the atmospere is apt to be hazy. In Europe a similar season is known as St. Martin's Summer.
 
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