i88 Clear Skies and Cloudy. 



from the window ; but plunge into these ele- 

 ments of discomfort, accept no other than 

 your impressions after close contact, and you 

 will be moved to admit that only upon the 

 failure of a thousand happenings, and a deeper 

 blackness settling over the outlook than ever 

 did, will you be justified in exclaiming, even as 

 you survey the world from a window, " How 

 desolate !" 



