"I am the dry desert, you are the rain, and yet I remain dry and produce no grass."

The child because the rain kept it indoors.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; * *

The rain falls into the deep incisions of the letters, and has scarcely time to be dried away before another shower sprinkles the flat stone again, and replenishes those little reservoirs.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING I LIVE FOR ITS A HIGH OLD RAIN OF BOURBON.

Then Riley bade his men look to the priming of their guns, and reload those which the rain had wet.

The weather was so mild in December and January that they could work almost as well as in the summer, and the rain gave them facilities for washing such as they could not have in the dry season.

But, though the wind up here blew unmistakably when it did blow, and the rain hit hard whenever it fell, the various weathers of the winter season were not quite so formidable on the coomb as they were imagined to be by dwellers on low ground.

The guests had arrived before the rain began to fall, and they were all now assembled in the chief or living room of the dwelling.

This personage strode on through the rain without a pause, following the little-worn path which, further on in its course, skirted the shepherd's cottage.

By the time that he had arrived abreast of the shepherd's premises the rain came down, or rather came along, with yet more determined violence.

The outskirts of the little settlement partially broke the force of wind and rain, and this induced him to stand still.

While he stood, the boom of the serpent within the adjacent house, and the lesser strains of the fiddler, reached the spot as an accompaniment to the surging hiss of the flying rain on the sod, its louder beating on the cabbage-leaves of the garden, on the eight or ten beehives just discernible by the path, and its dripping from the eaves into a row of buckets and pans that had been placed under the walls of the cottage.

He seemed pleased with his survey, and, baring his shaggy head, said, in a rich, deep voice: "The rain is so heavy, friends, that I ask leave to come in and rest awhile.

I'll take a seat in the chimney-corner, if you have nothing to urge against it, ma'am; for I am a little moist on the side that was next the rain.

I should have been almost there by this time; but the rain drove me into your dwelling, and I'm not sorry for it.

" The room was so silentthough there were more than twenty people in itthat nothing could be heard but the patter of the rain against the window-shutters, accompanied by the occasional hiss of a stray drop that fell down the chimney into the fire, and the steady puffing of the man in the corner, who had now resumed his pipe of long clay.

A shepherd is always well provided with lanterns; and, lighting these hastily, and with hurdle-staves in their hands, they poured out of the door, taking a direction along the crest of the hill, away from the town, the rain having fortunately a little abated.

Then for the third time they came together, and at first Eric strove to be wary, as he had been before; but, growing mad at finding himself so foiled, he lost his wits and began to rain blows so fiercely and so fast that they rattled like hail on penthouse roof; but, in spite of all, he did not reach within Little John's guard.

But it began to rain heavily; and for this, and because of the murder, the assembly was adjourned.

In the same moment came the rain in torrents.

It was at this moment, as I clung against the wall, sheltering myself as well as I could from the pouring rain, that I heard through its steady beating an equally steady throb as of some sort of machine.

And now, caring no more for the rain than if it had been a springtide shower, I slowly began to creep along the wall in the direction of the sound.

But there was no headlight, and there was no sound beyond the steady throb of the steam and the ceaseless pouring of the rain behind me.

I had stowed it away as securely as I could under some thick undergrowth on the edge of the woods, but the downpour of rain had been so heavy that I knew it must have soaked through the foliage, and that I should have a nice lot of rust to face, let alone a saturated saddle.