. The wreck of the Sea Lion . age, there it lay, while heleaned over a common ticker telegraphic instru-ment, next door to the upright case that held his long strip of paper was running slowly out, inthe ordinary way, only rapidly. There ! he exclaimed, suddenly. There itgoes ! Im glad I wasnt any nearer. It got thewhole force of that stroke. He was sitting down on the floor of the shop ashe spoke. All the country around Eastwood waslistening to an uncommonly loud peal of thunderwhich had followed a vivid flash of lightning, andhis telegraphic machinery lay scattered all overthe floor,
. The wreck of the Sea Lion . age, there it lay, while heleaned over a common ticker telegraphic instru-ment, next door to the upright case that held his long strip of paper was running slowly out, inthe ordinary way, only rapidly. There ! he exclaimed, suddenly. There itgoes ! Im glad I wasnt any nearer. It got thewhole force of that stroke. He was sitting down on the floor of the shop ashe spoke. All the country around Eastwood waslistening to an uncommonly loud peal of thunderwhich had followed a vivid flash of lightning, andhis telegraphic machinery lay scattered all overthe floor, while the bells had surely gone shop, too, seemed to smell of sulphur, and itlooked to Squire Lander as if a vicious ball ofblue fire traveled along the work bench to theforge. Flash ! Crash ! Lightning and thunder soclosely arm in arm that the thunder seemed to comefirst, while the blue fire shot up the chimney anda dozen or so of the bricks that had been at the top ?a B. ?* CD fcr P- CD P 3 crq o CD oo»?*. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING 125 of it came rattling down as if frightened off theirperch by so much thunder-storm. Thunder!5 exclaimed Squire Lander. Idset a trap to catch that storm current, but I didntexpect so much. I cant go to find Si, though, tillthe storms over, and he added, as he stood up,leaned forward and looked : My soul! The tickeris knocked all to pieces ! Ill have to get a new cant exactly hope to regulate a stroke of light-ning. The look of things in his shop, especially aroundhis electrical machinery, was in favor of that idea,but all the rest of that seashore neighborhood onlyknew, as they said : Thats it! What a clap o thunder! Thestorms got here ! Mrs. Vrooman herself turned from explain-ing to her husband the improvements in thehen-coop, which had enabled her to succeed sovery well with ducks, and exclaimed, as the squiredid: Thunder ! Lets go into the house ! Theres a squall coming, Sally, he wont hurt the ducks, but I guess y
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