Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1918 — Something to “Greet” About. [ARTICLE]

Something to “Greet” About.

Persons casting akout for something to worry about may take pleasure in recalling from “The Little Minister” the manner in which self-styled simple folk in Scotland regard the northern lights—“the devil’s rainbow,” Waster Lunny called it. "I saw it sax‘times in July month,” he said, “and it made me shut my een. You was out admiring it, dominie, but I can never forget that' It was/seen in the year ’l2 just afore the great storm. I was only a laddie then, but I mind hoyv that awful; wind stripped .al the standing corn in the glen in less time than we’ve been here at the water’s edge. It was called the deil’s bosom. My father’s hinmost words to me was, ‘lt’s time ejieuch to greet, laddie, when you see the aurora borealis.’ ’’ Waster Lunny was “greeting” o’er the drought then, but twelve hours later the Quharity was out of its banks, washing out the corn and with-a year’s store of wool on Its crest was dashing out to sea.