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CHAPTER VIII. 



WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN. 



All classes of people who get their living by their 

 work out of doors, notice carefully the rising and, 

 more particularly, the setting of the sun, since under 

 certain atmospheric aspects as it rises or sets, a 

 very close judgment can be formed of what the day 

 will be. 



More importance is attached to the going down 

 of the mighty life-giving luminary than to its rising. 

 Folks are apt to think over matters a bit at night, 

 as to what has passed and what may probably take 

 place on the morrow, though for some this never 

 comes. 



The last rays of a glorious sunset lit up a dreary 

 foreshore and a long reach of sands beyond ; the / 



