. Stories of a country doctor . lire is in my front,but I can not pass it, so I am forced to the necessity ofheading it off—going around it, in fact. This I under-take to do. With the changes constantly taking placein the picture before me I soon lose my bearings. Iwent out in the morning over a country with which myeyes were perfectly familiar and return at night with afairy land in front of me and not a single object in anydirection which I recognize as ever having seen before. I m o v eon, keep-ing myeyes fixedon themirage towatch thewonderful trans-formations tak-ing placeunder thechang in
. Stories of a country doctor . lire is in my front,but I can not pass it, so I am forced to the necessity ofheading it off—going around it, in fact. This I under-take to do. With the changes constantly taking placein the picture before me I soon lose my bearings. Iwent out in the morning over a country with which myeyes were perfectly familiar and return at night with afairy land in front of me and not a single object in anydirection which I recognize as ever having seen before. I m o v eon, keep-ing myeyes fixedon themirage towatch thewonderful trans-formations tak-ing placeunder thechang ingI finally head the I SAW MEN GET UP ANDWALK ON THE FI-ERY BILLOWS. chiaroscuro of lights and shadowsfire off and put it at my back, but I am a stranger in astrange land. Darkness has set in and I am utterly andhopelessly lost. I desire to go in a certain direction,but my faithful horse, when given his head, presses inanother. While I have more faith in him than I havein myself, I zvill press him in the direction that I think. 2i6 Ups and Downs, Continued. my home is. I look at the stars. There is the northstar directly in the south, with the unerring great clip-per pointing directly to it. The seven stars and all theprominent celestial land marks are turned entirelyaround. I feel dizzy, confused and foolish. While Iam under the pressure of a sense of having been pickedup bodily and transferred to another planet, somethingjumps up and goes away with a rushing sound just infront of me. It is a deer or some other wild here my horse comes to a dead halt and refuses tomove. I see something in front which looks like agreat mountain, which suddenl}- loses its shape andthere is a gulf. I dismount and feel around in the dark-ness to see why my faithful horse has stopped. I find adeep gully in front of me—a wash out with sides sosteep and bottom so deep that it is impassable. I standbeside my horse and think I will yell and see if I can getan answer from some one—from
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