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The last day of October - might I send you a postcard to Halloween? " Isn't it weird? ", asked husband - who is a connoisseur of many things, but not of nature's wild life, " that today I still saw a swallow in the backyard?" Weird indeed - because it was a sweet little bat - fluttering in her inimitable soft-hectic loudless way through the twilight. Are you in the mood already? Or are you like the youngest son in Grimm's fairy tale: "Von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen", "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear"? A father had two sons. The oldest one was clever and intelligent, and knew how to manage everything, but the youngest one was stupid and could neither understand nor learn anything. When people saw him, they said, "He will be a burden on his father!" Now when something had to be done, it was always the oldest son who had to do it. However, if the father asked him fetch anything when it was late, o...