54 PRĘTERITA-I

Lucy soon called him away and bid him observe a great black cloud from- the north which seemed rather electrical. Harry ran

for an electrical apparatus which his father had given him and the-cloud electrified his apparatus positively after that another cloud came which electrified his apparatus negatively and then a long train of smaller ones but before this cloud came a great cloud of dust rose from the ground and followed the positive cloud and at length seemed to come in contact with it and when the other cloud came a flash of lightning was seen to dart through the cloud of dust upon which the negative

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