The dexterous woodman shapes the stubborn oaks.
Pope’s Iliad, Book xxiii.
CHAPTER IV.
Wednesday, May 5, to Thursday, May 20.
HE abnormal amount of wet delighted the Kabyles, for they knew it meant heavy crops; and they had suffered from droughty seasons, so that the olive harvest of the previous autumn had been an entire failure. However it was most annoying to us. What had happened? What had we done to deserve this? We began to consider the advisability of making some offering to Uncle Zaïd’s Kouba, to propitiate the gods.
For Jove his fury pours,
And earth is laden with incessant showers,