384 WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY. 



more than ten miles. Some of the old cottage folk 

 are still positive that it is not the lightning but the 

 thunder that splits the trees ; they ask if a great 

 noise does not make the windows rattle, and want to 

 know whether a still greater one may not rive an 

 oak. They allow, however, that the mischief is some- 

 times done by a thunderbolt. 



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