120 OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



variably fresh and sparkling. Indeed, I have 

 stood at noon watering stock in the broiling 

 sun (and no one who has had no experience 

 in this direction knows the infinite leisureliness 

 of the drinking animal), having to mark time 

 with my feet to keep them off the red-hot 

 ground, and suddenly up has come the 

 vivifying breeze of these latitudes, and, hey 

 presto ! I am cool nay, almost cold. Con- 

 sequently the same given temperature East 

 and West implies probably twenty degrees of 

 difference in one's feelings. However hot 

 it may be here, no sense of relaxation or 

 languor provided, of course, that a person 

 be in tolerable health is ever experienced. 

 It goes without saying that the average 

 English person has to learn how to live in 

 a warm climate ; to abandon his beloved 

 ' flannels,' for instance, to eat less meat, and 

 to acquire the art of keeping his house cool. 

 Open doors and windows, and a great many 

 of them, he will gradually repent of as a 

 bitter mistake only gradually, no doubt, for 

 our race is a pertinacious one, and is pro- 

 verbially reluctant to do at Rome as the 

 Romans do. 



