MOUNTAIN MOONLIGHT 



THE charm of moonlight among 

 the mountains in mid-summer 1 What 

 words will describe it? 



The day was long and hot, and 

 the mountain sides were scorched and 

 yellowed by the sun. The trees hung 

 listless, drooping, wilted. The birds 

 all afternoon were quiet. The only 

 sound that broke the hot silence was 

 the long whistle of the locomotive 

 as it drew the train down the valley 

 and behind the other range. 



The sun went down, red-hot and 

 blistering to the last. Then a cow, 

 somewhere on the ridge side, con- 

 cluding it was time to go home, got 

 up and shook her bell. It seemed 



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