. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. SPRING. 29 ence of the patter on the roof, and the ever varying tattoo upon the tin beneath the dripping eaves ! Who can forget those rainy days, with their -. , games of hide-and-seek in the old dark garret! How we looked out upon the muddy puddled road, and laughed at the great drifting sheets of water that ever and anon poured down from some bursting cloud, and â J-y^ -\- â - roared upon the roof! And as the driving rain beat against the blurred window-panes, what strange capers the squirming tree-. trunks outside seemed
. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. SPRING. 29 ence of the patter on the roof, and the ever varying tattoo upon the tin beneath the dripping eaves ! Who can forget those rainy days, with their -. , games of hide-and-seek in the old dark garret! How we looked out upon the muddy puddled road, and laughed at the great drifting sheets of water that ever and anon poured down from some bursting cloud, and â J-y^ -\- â - roared upon the roof! And as the driving rain beat against the blurred window-panes, what strange capers the squirming tree-. trunks outside seemed to play for our amusement: the dark door- way of the barn, tooânow swell- ing out to twice its size, now stretching long and thin, or divid- ing in the middle in its queer con- tortions. Out in the dismal barn-yard we saw the forlorn row of hens huddled '\_X together on the hay-rick, under the drizzling straw-thatched shed; and the gabled coop near by, in whose dry retreat the motherly old hen spread her tawny wings, and yielded the warmth of A RAINY Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York, Harper & Brothers
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