november arrived with cold , bleak days and rainy , sullen nights.-it seemed the moon was too tired to show his face and hid night after night between heavy blankets of clouds.-daytime found leafless trees waving their arms in defiance at the weak , watered-down light of the absconding sun.-winter came early and seemed to have the whole region chained beneath the dull , dreary sameness of barren , colorless vistas .