Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-25

~ fi"'N y t'idNGj pTODaUle areas Of rain
snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or pre-
ceeded by earthquakes. with thunder and
lightning. Then he .jots down this post
script from lis wandering mind TO cover NO.
c%iients: But il is possible that the pro-
Granme may be wholly changed in The
meantime.
Yes. one ofl.c brightest gems in The New
England weather is the dazzling> uncertain
~ OF 1t. There is only one thing certain,
about it. you are certain there is going to he
plenty. OF weather. A perfect grand review:
but you never can tell which end Of the pro-
ces>ioll is going 70 move first. Yo,, fix. rp
for the d!oi!lit You leave your umbrella IN
tie house ard sally out with your sprilh-
ling-pot. and ten to one you get drowned.
! on make up your mind that tie earth
quake Is due; you stand from under al d
take hold Of something to steady yourself.
and the first thing You know. you get struck
by lightning. These are great disappoint-
ihents. But they can't be helped. The
lightning there is peculiar; it is so c%onyinc-
inc When it strikes a thing it doesn't-leave
enough OF that thing behind for You to tell
WhetEer-Well, You'd think It was some
ching valuable, and that i congressman had
been there.
commences 70 merely tune up, and scrape
and saw, and key up the instruments for tie
performance. strangers say, Why, what
awful thunder you have here !" But when
the baton is raised and the real concert be-
gins. you'll tlnd t1at stranger down in lie
cellar, with his head i'll tie ~asl-barrel.
Now. as to Tie size Of The weather in New
E!iglanl-lengthways | mean. 1t is utterly
disproportionea to the size Of that little
country. Half the time, wienNit is packed
as fllil as il can stick. you will see that New
England weather sticking ont beyond the
edges and projecting aroaud hundreds oi
miles over the ~neigfboring States. Size can't
hold a tenth part of her weather. You can
see cracks III about where size has strained
herself trying 70 DO il.
Icould speak volumes about the in}nmar
peryersity Of tie New England weather.
but | will give bur a single specimen. !
like to hear rain on a tin root. SO | covered
part Of MY root with tin, with an eye to that
luxury. Wen. Sir, do you think it ever
rains on tliat tin? No, sir; skips it every
time.
Mind, IN this speech / liave been trying
merely to do honor to the New England
weather no language could Go it justice.
But after Ill there are at least one or tive
things about Chat weather (or.if yol please
effects produced by III Which we residents
would not like to part with. II We had no
our beWitclling autumn foliage. we Should
still have to credit the weather with enc fea-
ture which compcnsates for all It's bullying
vagaries-the ice storln-wIien q ~leatless
tree is clothed with ice from the bottom t.
tie top-ice tilat is as bright and clear as
crystal; every bolgil and stwigi is strung
with ice-heads, frozen aew-drops, and The
whole tree spartles. cold and white like tlt
Stah Of Persia's diamond plume. Then tht
wind waves the branches, and The sun come;
out and turns. all those myiiads of bead
and drons to prisnns, that glow and hun
and fash viii, HI manner OF col0red fires
which change and change again. with ineoIi
ceiyahle rapiflity, from hlae to red. from rt
to green, and green to gold; tie tree be
comes a sparkling fountain. a very explosion
OF dazzling Jewels. aud it stands there th'
acme. the climax, the snpremest possibility
III art of nature, of hewiltlering, intoXicat
iltg. intolerable magnificelee! One canno
make tie words to strong.
Month after month | lay up hate ant
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