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and land them close to your feet. They are just 

 beginning to come." 



**Just beginning! What will the end be? 

 Already they care nothing for the sight of man 

 or gun, and sheer but little from the spouting 

 flame," I thought. 



On the sky the light was shattered into a 

 thousand tints, with everything above the horizon 

 in clear outline, while over all below rested a 

 pallid glow that intensified brilliant colors, but 

 threw a weird gloom over somber shades. From 

 the departed sun rosy light radiated into the 

 zenith, while the upper sky on the east was 

 changed by the contrast into pale gold tinged 

 with faded green. North and south the blue 

 shaded into delicate olive tints, shifting into 

 orange toward the center of the great dome. 

 On the east lay castles of rich umber fringed 

 with crimson fire; on the west rolled banks of 

 coppery gold and fleecy streams of lemon-colored 

 vapor. Over this stage now poured a troop of 

 actors that made the wonders of the last few 

 minutes seem a puppet-show. 



Hitherto the ducks coming in to roost had 

 come from near the level of the horizon. But 



