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dark storms , and to see the great clouds moving before the wind like mountains of snow , and to watch the shadows of them passing over the ploughed lands ; and when they are far off , to see the showers descend in long streaks . See , now , how beautiful those pigeons look , hurrying home , after their meal , with the black cloud behind them . '—p . 37 . The next shall be a thunder-storm from July :
As Mr . Stock finished speaking , they heard a very low rumbling , like the noise qf a heavy cart on an iron road . Presently they observed , from a dark lead-coloured cloud , a bright flash , like a fiery snake , dart down upon a distant hill ; after waiting for some time , the thunder followed , as if it had been the same heavy cart that had fallen , and was afterwards dragged rattling along ; then had stopped , then fallen again , and ended by rumbling till it was out of hearing . The dark cloud all
this time was changing its appearance and shape ; sometimes it was very ragged at the edges , like wool pulled or snatched off . Every thing around was quite silent , not even a little bird was heard to whistle . The sheep in the fields huddled their heads together , and bent them down towards the ground . Presently the wind rose all at once with a great roaring , and whirled up the dust of the road in a cloudy pillar ; then ceased again , and all was silent . In a few seconds some large drops fell , and immediately after a broad flash burst out of the cloud , followed almost instantaneously by a crashing and tearing , as if houses were being overturned and dashed to pieces ; and every now and then there were great bangs heard like cannon firing off . At the sudden bursting of this thunder-clap , some horses in a neighbouring field snorted , started , and galloped away . For a moment or two after the thunder had ceased there was a dreadful stillness , and then the rain came down in a torrent , driving up the dust of the road , and making a soft noise as if it fell upon wool , till it was soaked through and beaten down ; when it made a quick splashing , and seemed to be lashing the ground .
* They now had to run for it , and did not reach home till they were nearly soaked through . The lightning and thunder still continued , and the rain seemed to smoke along the ground , and upon the thatched roof of a elied opposite to their house . Sometimes the thunder sounded very high in the air , as if above the clouds ; at others , as U it were down in the road . That whicli but a few minutes before had been a lovely day , with a blue sky , and stately clouds like snowy rocks that scarcely moved at all , was now one dull , lead-coloured covering . In about an hour it became lighter , and in another hour they had the pleasure to see that stormy cloud sailing away from them , still looking black , with its edges touched by the light of the golden sun . From time to time they heard that the storm had not ceased , though it was not so loud ; at length it was so far off , that the thunder made only a low , surly rumbling ; and the cloud which had before looked so angry , when over and near them , now shone like a snow-covered mountain , with crags and precipices , and
deep hollows and caverns . The family all remarked how pleasantly cool the air had become , and how calm ; and admired the fresh and glittering appearance of the grass , and the leaves of the trees , and flowcra in the sunshine ; and they snuffed up with delight the smell of the earth after the rain . '—p . 102—104 ,
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146 Adam the Gardener *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/62/
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