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"Well, William, perhaps, as you must come down once or twice to see the property Miss Percival, I should say it may be too soon suppose we put it off till October?" "October I shall be down at Melton." "Pray, sir, may I then inquire what portion of the year is not, with you, dog-days?" "Why, uncle, next April, now I think that would do." "Next April! Eleven months, and a winter between.
No eye could have read what was passing in this man's mind; but the boldest would have found more to quail at than to hope for in the expression of his eyes, once bright and yellow like those of a tiger, but now shrouded, from austerities and privations, with a haze like that which overhangs the horizon in the dog-days, when, though the earth is hot and luminous, the mist makes it indistinct and dim almost invisible.
There is no danger of an influx of the dry outer air. The Sisyphus seems to be aware of the peril which later on, in the dog-days, will threaten its "pear," small as it is, and so near the surface of the ground. It is extremely precocious. It labours in April and May when the air is mild.
The dog-days came and there loomed in the distance the Fall months. Tom had called on Andy one day, and they went out in the canoe together. "Well, it will soon be study-grind again," remarked Tom, as he sent the light boat under a fringe of bushes out of the sun. "Yes, and I won't be sorry," spoke Andy. "I'm anxious to see what life at Yale is like.
M. Carrel was evidently not aware of the existence of similar caves elsewhere. He recommends, in his communication to the Bibliothèque Universelle, that some scientific man should investigate the phenomena, and explain the great cold, and the fact of the formation of ice, which common report ascribed to the time of the Dog-days.
Usually the sun does its duty, but once in a while there comes a summer in Maine when there is so much wet weather that it is nearly impossible to harvest the hay crop. Such a summer was that of 1868. At the old farm our rule was to begin haying the day after the Fourth of July and to push the work as fast as possible, so as to get in most of the crop before dog-days.
During the dog-days he had suffered from an abscess, which Charles had cured as if by miracle by giving a timely little touch with the lancet. The steward sent to Tostes to pay for the operation reported in the evening that he had seen some superb cherries in the doctor's little garden.
Off on the perilous flood for "faërie lands forlorn"! It made the world seem almost empty and very lonesome. And then the dog-days came, and I saw my river tawny, sinewy, gaunt a half-starved lion. The long dry bars were like the protruding ribs of the beast when the prey is scarce, and the ropy main current was like the lean, terrible muscles of its back.
I generally lay aside the Dog-days and the hot Time of the Summer for the teaching this Part of the Exercise; for as soon as ever I pronounce Flutter your Fans, the Place is fill'd with so many Zephyrs and gentle Breezes as are very refreshing in that Season of the Year, tho' they might be dangerous to Ladies of a tender Constitution in any other.
I began to fancy myself very much of a sailor, a delusion considerably encouraged by a huge P. jacket and a sou'-wester, both of which, though it was in the dog-days, Agnes insisted upon my wearing, saying I looked more like Dirk Hatteraick, who, I understood, was one of her favourite heroes in Walter Scott. In fact, after she suggested this, she and all her friends called me nothing but Dirk.
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