A MANOR HOUSE IN DEER LAND. 1S7 



when the sky is clear, the wood still, and the 

 vapour of heat lying about the hillsides, there 

 comes from unknown distances a roll and 

 vibration like heavy thunder, fined to a 

 tremble of the air. It is an inexplicable 

 sound. There are no visible thunder-clouds, 

 no forts within audible distance. Perhaps it 

 is the implacable Drake discharging his 

 enchanted cannon in the azure air against 

 the enemies of England. 



