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injured by the wet, and with a few sheets of birch bark stretched over a 

 frame in the form of the letter A, they made a covering for the smoker 

 which would keep out the rain. Of course the ends of the cover were 

 somewhat open, in order that the smoke might find egress. 



The rain, as night shut in on us, began to patter down, and soon it 

 came in a steady pour, and the grumbling of the thunder, which had until 

 now been far away, came nearer and nearer until its heavy peals almost 

 shook the earth. 



" By Jove ! " exclaimed the Judge, as we sought the shelter of our 

 tent ; " there is no place like the woods for a thunder storm. I love to lie 

 under the canvas and listen to it. How it echoes and reverberates among 

 the mountains ; how vividly the lightning illuminates the surrounding 

 scenery, which in another instant becomes all blackness again. It is one 

 of the greatest and most thrilling of Nature's phenomena." 



"Yes, Judge," said the Doctor; "it is all very fine and interesting, as 

 you say, and I also love to watch a thunder storm in the woods; but I 

 prefer to have my tent away from tall trees. We have two or three tower- 

 ing old pine stubs close to camp, which might unpleasantly fall upon our 

 tent. I once had a windfall come down within a yard of my sleeping 

 place, which had it struck me, would have demolished me." 



" We will not worry about it," replied the Judge. " We can go only 

 once, and I never give such accidents a thought." 



As he spoke a tremendous clap of thunder occurred, accompanied by 

 a flash of the most vivid lightning. Another peal followed it, heavier than 

 the first, and then a heavy crash, and the fall of a dead tree in the woods, 

 near by, was heard. 



Inst. Photo, by E. A. Samuels. 



A Vivid Flash of Lightning. 



