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 "How awful to have been out in all that frightful storm!" commiseratingly remarked the old lady from Waterford that evening at supper. "Couldn't you even get into the woods?"

"Well, no," returned the climber, deprecatingly. He knew they all thought him a little queer. "You see, I felt safer in the open."