. To California and back;. The veil quickly dissipates, and at thesame instant the peak is robbed of its sunlight bybillows of vapor that marshal in appalling magnifi-cence. Then the rain-mist advances and hides thewhole from view. A strip of green next flashes onthe sight, a distant field lighted by the sun, but lyingunaccountably beneath a cloud of black. Beyond,the broad foot of a rainbow winks and all the hilltops rain next begins to fall likeamber smoke, so thin is .the veil that shields themfrom the sun. Then the sun abruptly ceases toshine, the whole heavens are overcas
. To California and back;. The veil quickly dissipates, and at thesame instant the peak is robbed of its sunlight bybillows of vapor that marshal in appalling magnifi-cence. Then the rain-mist advances and hides thewhole from view. A strip of green next flashes onthe sight, a distant field lighted by the sun, but lyingunaccountably beneath a cloud of black. Beyond,the broad foot of a rainbow winks and all the hilltops rain next begins to fall likeamber smoke, so thin is .the veil that shields themfrom the sun. Then the sun abruptly ceases toshine, the whole heavens are overcast, and betweenthe fine fast-falling drops the ground gleams wet incool gray light. By noon the sun agaia is shining-clear, although in occasional canons there is nightand deluge, and at the close of a bright afternoonthe farthest, loftiest peak has a white cloud wreatharound it, as symmetrical as a smoke-ring breathedfrom the lips of a seiiorita; and out of the middle ofit rises the fragment of a rainbow—a cockade on a56.
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