COUNTRY LIFE
WE hear perpetually from this part of Europe and that—as indeed from remoter lands—of the rain and storm and dust that arrest even the best equipped armies. Now a record of English weather does not indicate a single day, much less a continued period, when weather (or what even the elect will call " weather conditions ") would have arrested any considerable operation either of war or peace. The unavoidable con- clusion is that we enjoy better weather than most countries. The reason why English weather is much more soundly and frequently abused than the weather of less happier lands is its quick changes. As some critic wrote, it is very feminine:
Quick changes form me: Wind, sun, calm, rain ; But, " She doesn't bore me," Said Lord Steyne.
The best of all proofs of the virtue of our clime is the sight of the corn fields at this moment. The wheats are.bearing two hundred fold because the plant has experienced five-sixths of the whole year, and profited by each month.
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