SWAYING TREE TOPS 



best that he can do, however, is to 

 get through the white light of mid- 

 day as he can, trusting that the sun- 

 set will be generous. 



Before the thunderstorm some 

 days ago the hills were brown, but 

 a few hours wrought their transfor- 

 mation and at evening they were 

 lying drenched with green. The top- 

 most twigs of maple and sycamore 

 had turned color in the few hours, 

 apparent preparation for some real 

 work next day in bud development. 



The wet sidewalk the pools along 

 the way the green hillside the 

 bare trees with their prophetic tints 

 were all enveloped in the after- 

 glow of the sunset, and had the 

 unreality which a scene has when 

 you view it with inverted head. It 



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