Caught in the Rain. 



It is exhilarating to test those faculties that us 

 ally lie dormant, as when, being caught in tl 

 rain, you accommodate yourself with bewilderir 

 promptness to the new order of things. It is 

 be accounted good fortune, if the mere turnii 

 from a well-worn rut and running over ne 

 ground leads one to make merry by reason < 

 such trivial novelty. To particularize : I, with tv 

 companions, was caught in the rain recently. P. 

 were disposed to make the best of it, and four 

 that which contemplation would have painted 

 sombre tints delightfully rose-colored. 



Somewhere ahead of us — how far or near a 

 knew not — there was reported to be an excelle 

 Indian field, and each was eager to collect sor 

 curious carving, shapely weapon, or even home 

 potsherds. We had come many miles and dread 

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