MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



lost time. Body and soul are both gainers 

 by this beautiful, restful stillness, and forest 

 calm, once truly gained, becomes a life 

 habit. 



I never learned so much of the beauty, 

 the majesty and the significance of a storm, 

 as when watching it from its earliest begin- 

 nings with a view to giving my robins as 

 much of an outing as possible, while allow- 

 ing myself ample time to place them under 

 shelter before it should really break forth. 



How impressively the minor-voiced trees 

 spoke as they wildly and warningly waved 

 their branches against the ever-darkening 

 sky. It was as if they said: " Go to your 

 shelter, O human child. Nature has a great 

 probing, testing work on hand to-day. She 

 is sending out her emissaries to learn which 

 of us have lived out the measure of our 

 days: which will fall under the violence of 

 the storm, or which will gain in strength 

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