CHAPTER III. 



SWALLOWS 

 are very 

 numerous, 

 and a curious 

 incident occur- 

 red one day connected 

 with them. It was in the 

 beginning of March, and 



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the rain had poured in tor- 

 rents all night, and continued 

 the whole of the next day, the wind blowing 

 a perfect hurricane, the thermometer suddenly 

 dropping to 63 About 1 1 A.M. a drenched, 



