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Updated: June 22, 2025

But they were all finally pushed in. Then commenced the rain a real pouring cats-and- dogs kind of rain, with thunder and lightning and the stage pitch-dark. The whole populace climbed up on the rocks and crawled about, drenched to the skin, and little by little disappeared. The dove was better trained than the animals, and had learned his role very well.

L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone - In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters