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pleasant change) and rage and tear with equal 

 violence, but bringing great relief to one's 

 (generally) irritated feelings. I suppose the 

 cool winds are good from a sanitary point of 

 view, and they are certainly most refreshing in 

 the hot sun, but they interfere sadly with my 

 constant occupation of butterfly collecting, it 

 being sometimes quite useless even to try and 

 use the net, besides injuring a great many of 

 the insects. The hot north wind generally lasts 

 three or four days. Then the thermometer will 

 go up to 1 02 to 104 degrees, and very often 

 a thunderstorm follows. All animals avoid its 

 scorching influence, and the very butterflies 

 keep close to the ground under the thick leaves, 

 only flying a very little way when disturbed ; 

 the numerous family of "red-tips," however, 

 seem to defy it, and jog along in the open, close 

 to the ground, in their usual erratic fashion, 

 quite unconcernedly. 



Sometimes a cyclone visits us, and the sand 

 is whirled about, and great trees broken or com- 

 pletely rooted up, roofs are lifted bodily off the 



