The stone wall for a moment opposes its force, but falls the next, with a mighty splash, carrying the spray far and wide, while its own fragments roll onwards with the stream.

The trees of the orchard are uprooted in an instant, and an old elm falls prostrate.

The outbuildings of a cottage are invaded, and the porkers and cattle, divining their danger, squeal and bellow in affright.

But they are quickly silenced.

The resistless foe has broken down wall and door, and buried the poor creatures in mud and rubbish.
The stream next invades the cottage, breaks in through door and window, and filling all the lower part of the tenement, in a few minutes converts it into a heap of ruin.