BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



possess, and also a perception of things 

 otherwise than by sight and touch. 



Many opportunities occur of testing 

 faculties that have not been dulled, or 

 atrophied, by the life of civilization. I 

 note a recent one. The season of 1912 

 was in many ways remarkable. Early 

 in the summer, abnormal conditions de- 

 veloped, and even when the sky was 

 absolutely cloudless, the sun did not give 

 its usual heat. At noon the eye could 

 glance at it without discomfort. The 

 days were cold: the clear nights were 

 relatively warm. High in the upper air 

 some impalpable veil shielded the earth 

 from the sun's rays, and, conversely, 

 prevented the radiation of heat at night. 

 It was not water vapour, for there were 

 none of the attendant manifestations in 

 the way of solar or lunar haloes. If the 

 gentlemen at Washington and Toronto, 

 who bind and loose the four winds for 

 us, noticed these conditions they did not, 

 so far as I am aware, communicate their 



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