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Книга по требованию: The New Eclectic Magazine, 1870 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New Eclectic Magazine, 1870

He thinks he will certainly cultivate Nature's acquaintance when his accumulations are large enough, and bid farewell to Bills Payable and all kindred commercial horrors. But a longer residence among the flowers and birds reveals certain drawbacks.

It rains sometimes.

Let it be understood that country rain is different from city rain. The former is perceptibly wetter, always more unexpected, and more continuous. It rains lavishly. One starts out for a walk with no better preparation for pluvial visitations than a walking-cane, which affords very limited shelter; and when one gets a "convenient'' distance, say four miles from any habitation, the country rain begins. The bottoms of a million hogsheads seem to have fallen out suddenly. The lightning is clear and sharp, and the thunder perfectly astounding. In town, the clatter of carts and stages drowns the noise of the thunder, and the glare of the lightning is deadened by high walls. But amid those sylvan scenes, so charming when Nature is in repose, the war of the elements is sometimes terrific. The peculiarity of country electricity is striking, and there are no conductors on the trees. It leaps from the clouds to the earth vigorously and viciously, as if rejoicing in the abundance of room. If you have a fleeting idea that the broad branches of oak or chestnut would keep off the rain that is penetrating to your bones, you reject it with a shudder, and wade across the road to avoid the treacherous shelter. And so you come to the little rill which you crossed with a bound an hour ago, and find it an angry, yellow torrent, spreading all over the low meadow, and defying the stride of a Titan. You go a mile out of your way to the shaking bridge, and as you cross the turbid stream you wonder if the frail structure will endure your weight. When you reach the house at last, probably the storm is over, and the sun is sending his golden beams aslant through the dripping leaves. How nice your boots look, encumbered with the subsoil from half a dozen fields, and how well soaked your under-garments as you tear them away from your equally well-soaked carcase! Did you bring a change of raiment with you? If not, you are in a condition to manifest the patience of the Patriarch, as you struggle into borrowed garments and sit down to wait for your own to dry. Everything is ruined, of course, and you mentally enter a hundred dollars to the debit of your summer trip. How much do you think that hat would bring at auction?

Perhaps you are an amateur fisherman. You have been poring over old Izaak Walton, or Frank Forrester, and fancy you could land a two-pound trout with ease if you could only find a trout stream. Well, you hear of one a few miles up the hills. The dull farmers don't fish, but they are voluble in legends of great takes of spotted beauties in Spriggins' meadow, where the brook flows in a succession of little rapids alternating with deep pools. "It is late in the season, and the fish mount be found early in the morning." So you get up at an unheard-of hour, make a frugal meal of bread and milk, and start out before the birds have wakened. What marvellous odors you encounter as you cross the woodland, damp with dewdrops, or catch the sweet breath of the sleeping eglantine in the fence-corners!

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