It takes a New England farmer to note and interpret the signs of coming storm on abeautiful and sunny day. Perhaps his power is due in part to natural sharpness, and in partto the innate pessimism of the Yankee mind, which considers the fact that the hay is cut butnot yet in the barn a sufficient reason for believing that "it'll prob'ly rain t'morrow."I must confess that I had not enough of either of these qualities to be observant and fearfulof the...
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