My First Summer 



"June 22. Unusually cloudy. Besides 

 the periodical shower-bearing cumuli there 

 is a thin diffused fog-like cloud overhead. 

 About .75 in all. 



June 2 3. --Oh, these vast, calm, mea- 

 sureless mountain days, inciting at once to 

 work and rest ! Days in whose light every- 

 thing seems equally divine, opening a thou- 

 sand windows to show us God. Nevermore, 

 however weary, should one faint by the way 

 who gains the blessings of one mountain day ; 

 whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy 

 or calm, he is rich forever. 



June 24. Our regular allowance of 

 clouds and thunder. Shepherd Billy is in a 

 peck of trouble about the sheep; he declares 

 that they are possessed with more of the evil 

 one than any other flock from the beginning 

 of the invention of mutton and wool to the 

 last batch of it. No matter how many are 

 missing, he will not, he says, go a step to seek 

 them, because, as he reasons, while getting 

 back one wanderer he would probably lose 



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