The sun., 1892-01-03
APPENDIX.
WEATHER FOR USE IN THIS BOOK.
srLrc1Ip FROM raH sxsr ArrRoRinIs.


A brief though violent thunderstorm which
had ragged over the city was passing away: but
still. though the rain had ceased more than an
hour before. wild piles Of dark and coppery
clouds. In which fierce and rayless glow was
laboring. gigantically overhung the grotesQue
and huddled vista Of dwarf houses, while in
the distance shooting high overthe low. misty
confusion Of gables and chimneys spread a
pail OF dead. leprous blue. sufHused with
blotches Of dull. glistening yellow. and with
black plague spots OF vapor floating and
faint lightnings crinklinR on its surface.
Thunder. still muttering in the close and sultry
air. kept the scared dwellers in the street with
in. behind their closed shutters: and all de-
serted. cowed. detected. squalid. like poor;
stupid. top-heavy things that had felt the
wrath OF the summer tempest stood the
drenched structures on either side OF the
narrow and crooked way. ghastly and pic
turesQue under the giant canopy Rain drip
ped wretchedly In slow drops Of melancholy
sound from their projecting caves upon the
broken tagging. lay there in pools or trickled
into the swollen drains. where the fallen tor
rent sullenly gurgled on its way to the river
1.-THE Brazen Android." ". D. O'Connor.
The fery mid.Narch sun moment hung
Above the bleak Judsan wilderness;
Then darkness swept upon u.s. and twas night
L. Easter Eve at Koral.Moab." Clinton scollsrd.
The quick-coming winter twilight was al
ready at hand. Snow was again falling.
sitting delicatey down. incidentally as 1t
were. r. Folicia." Fannie N. D. 1lurfree.
Merciful heavensl The whole west. from
right to left. blazes up with q fierce light.
and next instant the earth reels and orivers
with the awful shock Of ten Thousand bat
tories OF artillery. 1t is the signal for the Fury
to spring-for thousand demons to scream
and shrek-for innumerable serpents Of fire
to writhe and light up the blackness.
Now the rain falls--now the wind ia let
loose with terrible shriek-now the light
ming is so constant that the eyes burn and
the thunder claps merge into an awful roar.
as did the eight hundred cannon at Gettys-
burg. Crashl Crashi Crash! 1t Is the cot
tonwood trees falling to EARTH Shrek!
Shrek! Shrek! 1t 10 the Demon racing
along the plain and uprooting even tlie blades
OF grass. Shock! Shock! Shock! It Is the
Fury finglng his fiery bolts into the bosom of
tho earth. [" The Demon and the Fury" n.
Quad.
Away up the gorge all diurnal fancles trooped
into the wide liberties OF endless luminous
vistas OF azure sunllt mountains beneath the
shining azure heavens. The sky. looking
down In deep blue placiditlee. only here and
there smote the water to azure emulations of
lte TINT. | IN tn0 ntCAu8or Teopio SountTy.
Charles E&bet Craddock.
There was every indication OF dust storm.
though the sun still shone brilliantly Tho
hot wind had become wild and rampant. 1t
was whipping up the sandy coating OF the
plain in every direction. High in the air wore
seen whirling spires and cones OF sand-a
curious effect against the deep blue sky. Be-
low. puffs Of sand were breaking out OF the
plain in every direction. as though the plain
were alive with invisible horsemen. These
sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated BY
the wind 1t was the larger clouds that were
lifted whole into the air. and larger clouds OF
sand were becoming moro and more the rule.
Alfred's eyes. quickly scanning the horizon.
deserted the roof OF the boundary rider 8 hut
still cleaning in the sunlight He remem-
bered the hut WELL It could not be further
than four miles, II Us much as TINT, from this
point OF the track. He also know these dust
storms OF old: Bindarra was notorious for
them. Without thinking twice. Alfred put
spurs to his horse and headed for the hut. Be-
fore he had ridden half the distance the de-
tached clouds Of sand banded together In one
dense whirlwind. and it was only owing to his
horse instinct that he did not ride wide Of
the hut altogether for during the last half
mile he never saw the hut until its outline
loomed suddenly over his horses ears. and By
then the sun was invisible r. Bride from
the Bush"
1t rained forty days and forty nights. lGen-
esis