SF ack-o'-the-Lantern. 385 
uncommon in the district which has been more 
particularly described. 
The zgnzs fatuus is almost extinct ; so much so that 
Jack-o’-the-Lantern has died out of the village folk- 
lore. On one occasion, however, I saw what at a 
distance seemed a bright light shining in a ditch 
where two hedges met. Thinking some mischief was 
going on, I went to the spot, when the light dis- 
appeared ; but on retiring, after a search which proved 
that no one was about, it came into view again. A 
second time I approached, and a second time the 
light died out. A few nights afterwards it was there 
again, and must clearly have been some kind of zgnds 
fatuus. There was a small quantity of stagnant 
water in the ditch, and a good deal of rotting wood— 
branches fallen from trees. 
One of the most interesting phenomena in 
connection with the weather seems to me to be the 
radiation of clouds. It appears to be more commonly 
visible in the evening, and, when fully developed, 
there is a low bank on the horizon, roughly arched, 
from which streamers of cloud trail right across the 
sky, through the zenith and down to the horizon 
opposite. Near each horizon these streamers or lines 
almost touch; overhead they are wider apart—an 
effect of perspective, I suppose. Often the lines do 
not stretch so far, hardly to the zenith, where they 
spread out like a fan. Ifthe sun has gone down, and 
the cloud chances to be white, these lines greatly 
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