700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 21
700 Common Word Reading and Dictation Exercise no. 21
The heat of the day had been such that even the houses seemed to be on fire. If you put out a hand to touch one of the old stones of which the houses were built you took your hand away quickly, feeling that it had been burned. The air itself could be seen, never still but moving upwards from the streets and the houses and the distant fields. It was not usually for the little town to be so very warm. For some years past the summer had been rather cold with poor weather, and the people kept to their warm dresses and did not trouble to spend time and money on buying light things which they might put on perhaps once only in a year. Nature, however, has her own little ways of interesting herself and us, and she loves nothing better than to do something that is not expected of her. To give us a very cold day in January and a very cold day in January and a very warm once in August is easy. There is no interest for Mother Nature in that, and she loves to play with us, giving us a warm Decembe…
