V. 



UP IN THE MORNING EARLY. 



How few can say that they have 

 witnessed a summer sunrise? I do 

 not speak only of town-folk, but even of the more 

 leisured country people, who can afford to lie abed, 

 and have no calls of duty or business to attend to. 

 Of course, the toilers in the fields have to be up and 

 about at such an hour as will bring them pretty nearly 

 at certain seasons in spring and autumn face to face 

 with nature, when "o'er the eastern hills the sun's 

 broad eye first peeps." But this class are not ob- 

 servant, at all events of more recondite phenomena, 

 or, if they are, they do not make record. And even 

 they do not see the genuine summer sunrise, when, 

 in the latter end of June and in July, the sun is, as 

 he should be, an example to all the world in early 

 rising. By the invalid, sleepless and weary, the first 



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