Hence its comparative safety. Because lightning sometimes passes from the clouds to the earth, and sometimes from the earth to the clouds. Come hither to me, now. Better and better. The storm deepens again.
Rugs are non-conductors.
Get one, that I may stand on it here, and you, too. You stand in the safest possible place according to your own account. I avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water, flocks of cattle and sheep, a crowd of men. But of all things, I avoid tall men. Nay, if the six-footer stand by running water, the cloud will sometimes select him as its conductor to that running water.