CHAPTER XII 

 SUGGESTIONS 



are now on the threshold of the 

 last week in May, and meteoro- 

 logical experts say that the tem- 

 perature has been lower so far 

 during this "merry" month than for sixty-one 

 years past. For my garden I regret it and would 

 gladly see my plants and trees enjoying some 

 warmth and sunshine, though for myself and my 

 own comfort, or discomfort, I accept the weather 

 as it comes. The weather itself only seriously 

 affects me, apart from solicitude for my surround- 

 ings, when the atmosphere is charged with elec- 

 tricity and there is " thunder in the air," which 

 always depresses me terribly and fills me with a 

 vague and unreasoning sense of undefined im- 

 pending disaster. 



It has been prognosticated that this weather is 

 to last well into June ; but at the moment I am out 

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