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Our senses — An atmospheric and wind sense — A difficult 

 subject — Our feeling about the wind — ^Women's unsuitable 

 clothing — Eastern and Western dress — A woman's fight 

 with the wind — A ludicrous sight which was beautiful — 

 An historical question — Light from the dark ages — Sheep- 

 shearing — ^A saint's biography — Ellen in News from Nowhere 

 — Wind in poetical Hterature. 



UNDOUBTEDLY we possess several senses in 

 addition to the five with which we are sup- 

 posed to be endowed — the canonical five they 

 may be called, or the seven with which some of the 

 authorities now credit us, the two apocryphal or 

 supplementary being the muscular sense and the 

 sense of equilibrium. Others are not recognised as 

 senses on account of having no organs ; but into 

 this question I do not wish to enter now, as at 

 present we are concerned only with the wind, and 

 I have no desire to shelter myself from it. 



To begin with, I must say that we have an atmos- 

 pheric sense, and that the wind is included in it as 

 well as cloud, mist, rain, snow, sunshine, and so on; 

 nevertheless, apart from all that, we may, or some 

 of us may, recognise in ourselves something which 

 may be called a wind-sense, seeing that it is, or so I 

 believe, an effect on body and mind widely different 

 in character from all other atmospheric effects. One 

 has only one's own experiences to go by; this sense 



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