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Well, dearie, how does the effect get you?" and she wheeled around for her sister's inspection. "If you take my advice, you'll be careful not to be caught out in the rain." "What's chewin' you now?" demanded Lise.

We found the mules and horses we had left at Matagalpa in good condition, and after getting some dinner started again, taking the road towards Teustepe instead of that by which we had come, as we were told we should avoid the swamps by so doing, for more to the westward they had had no rain.

'But it isn't raining in Italy, he said, getting up from his chair; 'and I am weary of the rain, of myself I am weary of everything. And going to the window, he tried to take ant interest in the weather, asking himself if it would clear up about 3 o'clock. It cleared usually late in the afternoon for a short while, and he would be able to go out for half an hour. But where should he go?

The last Irish poet who has appeared shows the spiritual qualities of the first, when he writes of the gray rivers in their "enraptured" wanderings, and when he sees in the jeweled bow which arches the heavens The Lord's seven spirits that shine through the rain

At length the morning so long sighed for came; the rain had indeed ceased; but the clouds still hung about the mountains, and promised a speedy fall; I nevertheless resolved rather to submit myself to the fury of the elements than to remain longer in my present quarters, and so ordered the horses to be saddled. Before my departure roast lamb and butter were offered me.

"You must be quick, then," said Dawson, "'cause I'm in a hurry to get back." "Yais," smiled the Greek. "Bimeby he rain-a bad." "Rain?" queried Dawson incredulously. The air was like balm. "You see," the Greek nodded. "This-a way, sir. I go look-a quick." Dawson waited in the bar, where a dark, sallow bar-man stared him out of countenance for twenty minutes.

Not orange or grape pips, as was so long believed, but the deadly fine rain of metal shavings must be held responsible for this scourge. I need hardly say that at the United States Grill no tinned food will be used." This latest discovery of the Colonel's is important if true.

But no sound came to them and they resumed the scout in the darkness, riding now down the slope which would end before long in a great valley. The ground softened by the rain deadened the footsteps of their horses, and they made little noise as they rode down the narrow pass, examining as well as they could the dripping forest on either side of the road.

Accordingly I dug a piece of ground, as well as I could, with my wooden spade; and dividing it into two parts, I sowed my grain; but, as I was sowing, it casually occurred to my thoughts that I would not sow it all at first, because I did not know when was the proper time for it; so I sowed about two-thirds of the seed, leaving about a handful of each: and it was a great comfort to me afterwards that I did so, for not one grain of what I sowed this time came to any thing; for the dry month following, and the earth having thus had no rain after the seed was sown, it had no moisture to assist its growth, and never came up at all till the wet season had come again, and then it grew as if it had been but newly sown.

"Well, I turns agin to the door; but it's the old story over again rain, rain, rain; spatter, spatter, spatter, 'I can't stop here with these true Brittons, sais I, 'guess I'll go and see the old Squire: he is in his study.