The Road to Dumbiedykes 



ern horizon a gorgeous panorama of 

 sea and shore and sky and distant 

 mountain heights, with great prom- 

 ontories projecting into misty gulfs. 

 In the offing mystic purple islands 

 floated in a golden ocean. For a time 

 it seemed impossible to distinguish the 

 line of demarcation between the main- 

 land of the earth and the vapory 

 shadows stretching out and up through 

 apparently immeasurable seaward dis- 

 tances. And that night came the 

 change: first the fiery vanguard of a 

 heavy storm; then the settling of a 

 steady all-day, all-night rain the kind 

 that makes this great globe of ours 

 inhabitable. Have you ever known 

 the comfort of watching or listening 

 throughout long hours to this blessed 

 streaming of the skies upon parched 

 fields, dust-laden foliage and shingle 

 roofs? If not, then we have found an- 

 other thing denied to you poor city folk. 

 On those rare days when a long, 

 late-summer drouth is at last being 

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