Winding the Clock 



position, with reference to the sun and 

 earth, you can go through just what I 

 had to do; watch for the opportunity 

 in your astronomical almanacs, and 

 find out for yourselves. But I cannot 

 become reconciled to this inability to 

 do the things that Nature clearly gives 

 one the right to do without being sus- 

 pected of being an outcast from society 

 as organized. I am therefore prepared 

 to say that Robinson Crusoe in his 

 South Sea freedom tumbled into good 

 fortune instead of trouble. 



All day long the rain has been run- 

 ning steadily down the spouts hidden 

 in the greenery of the walls. All day 

 long I have heard the drip-drip-drip 

 from the overhanging oaks. There is 

 a hole in one of the gutters that will 

 have to be repaired if all this sky-bom 

 water is to be saved; and through this 

 crack a cataract in miniature is spat- 

 tering about the base of the big mock- 

 orange bush that shelters the doorway 

 of the dining room, and threatening to 

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