Receiving — to Give Again 



quence, between Land and Ocean, Ocean and 

 Land. 



When showers come to gladden the hearts 

 of our farmers, and to provide food for the 

 people, they might sometimes give a thought 

 to the Ocean — to the manner in which, with 

 Sun and Air as helpers, he sends aloft mil- 

 lions of tons of water, for the use of those 

 on land. 



For ''unto the place from whence the rivers 

 come, thither they return again." 



There are parts of the world where rains, 

 like winds, come at regular and almost un- 

 failing dates. In disappointing years, when 

 they fail, an Empire may be disorganised in 

 consequence. 



But in our British Isles no such regularity 

 has sway ; and a pleasing uncertainty prevails 

 about Weather in general. This gives scope 

 for something to talk about, and something to 

 grumble at. What the average Briton would do 

 without these perpetual possibilities is a serious 

 question. 



No doubt our Weather is a very uncertain 

 quantity to be reckoned with. Yet it may be 

 that we are unfair to our friend the Ocean, who 

 does so much for us in the weather-line — ever at 



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