The night chill, too, seemed to go from the air.
Suddenly, as we rattled along, Addison jumped up from his seat and turned to us.

"I know now what this is!" he cried.

"Why didn't I think of it before ?" "What is it--if you know ?" cried Catherine and Theodora at once.
"The eclipse! The total eclipse of the sun!" exclaimed Addison.

"I remember now reading something about it in the _Maine Farmer_ a fortnight ago.

It was to be on the 7th--and this is it!" At that time advance notices of such phenomena were not so widely published as they are now; at the old farm, too, we did not take a daily newspaper.