There are other signs that Lewis has been given a bit of an autumn clean before its return.
They are very seasonal, relying on the right conditions: a bit of soft autumn rain, a sunny morning.
Exhilarating novelty, the joy of upending the establishment and thumbing a nose at conventional expectations; by picking an unknown outsider, Labour may get a bit of an autumn lift in the polls.
But Scotland's form individually and collectively with Glasgow, Edinburgh having started to come into a bit of form, the autumn internationals - put all those factors together and I think we've got a fairly decent chance to be competitive in Paris.
It felt, in fact, a bit like the theater of autumn, as Cone craftily worked the Yankees, at least until Derek Jeter singled in the third and Bernie Williams launched a two-run homer to right.
"I was in two autumn international squads I wasn't picked and I was going back-and-forth to France and there was a little bit of a fall out there".
But I'm betting we'll hear all about that new bit of kit in the autumn.
His second Western was Winds of Autumn.
