TO PRODUCE SOUNDS LIKE FALLING RAIN.
Procure a box six feet long, one foot wide, and one deep. Cover the bottom with small pegs of wood one inch high, and inserted two inches apart. Place a quart of dried peas at one end of the box; then raise that end quite slowly, allowing the peas to roll gradually down to the lower part of the box. The sound they produce in striking against the pegs imitates to perfection the falling of rain. The sound can be continued for any length of time by raising alternately each end of the box.