At three o'clock in the afternoon, when it was time to get up again, the temperature was still killing. Mother's usual summer remedy of sprinkling the sheets with refreshing cologne lasted only a minute. There was a full day's work to be done before noon, when the deadly heat drove everyone back into our big shuttered house and we lay down in the dim high-ceilinged rooms like sweating victims. We lit our kerosene lamps and carried them before us in the dark like our own tiny wavering suns. We arose in the dark, hours before sunrise, when there was barely a smudge of indigo along the eastern sky and the rest of the horizon was still pure pitch. for he knows nothing of the amount and kind of variation to which the group is subject.īy 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but not the Texas heat. When a young naturalist commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him, he is at first much perplexed to determine what differences to consider.
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