Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 672
g water. But such rays may ex-tend in any direction, so that they diverge fromthe sun as a center. No rain need be falling any-where near the observer, though it is not impossi-ble for the rays to be visible at a time when rain-streaks also are visible in part of the sky; therain-streaks, however,… … THERE WERE STREAKS GOING STRAIGHT UPINTO THE SKY. rays represented as surrounding the images ofBuddha. The people of some of the Pacific is-lands call the phenomenon the ropes of Maui,from an old legend about the great hero Maui,who, they say, attached ropes to the sun-god andheld him fast till he…
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