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color that Whittier thought he saw in the mountain 

 sunset. But chilly yellow and purple are sunlight 

 and shadow colors which belong to winter, never to 

 summer ; we always find them in frosty skies and 

 on frozen meadows. Undoubtedly there are gray 

 days and leaden skies in plenty, even in midsum- 



A gray day. Koad to Blue Island, 111. 



mer, but these only serve to accent the rainbow tints 

 of sunshiny days, and to rivet our attention particu- 

 larly on those wonderful transient effects of color 

 which occasionally favoring us at the sunset hour, 

 prompt us to exclaim with some vehemence : " There ! 

 if an artist should put that color effect on canvas, 

 every one would say he did not tell the truth ! " 



