WILD PASTURES 



wind. You may say that they would 

 turn in any wind and show their lighter 

 under sides, and this is true, yet there 

 is a difference in the appearance when 

 it is a rain-bringing wind. I cannot tell 

 you why this should be, but the differ- 

 ence is there. It may be that a moist 

 wind relaxes the tension of the petioles 

 more than a dry one and thus lets the 

 leaf lie flatter, giving a little different 

 look to the tree as a whole. The 

 weather-wise older people grew up on 

 the land instead of within walls and 

 they were wont to say, " The leaves are 

 turning in the wind and it is going to 

 rain." Like the pasture people they 

 knew. 



By nightfall the weather bureau sus- 

 pected something but was not quite sure 

 what. They hung out the " possible 

 rain " flag, and all the crows in the pine- 

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