Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — A Norther. [ARTICLE]

A Norther.

An old Texan being asked by a stranger to describe a norther said: “I’ll tell you what it is, stranger, a norther puts in the quickest work of anything you ever saw. You see that lake down there (pointing to a beautiful lake about a mile distant). Last spring, in the latter part of March, I was fishing in the afternoon; the sun was shining, and it was warm almost as the niddle of summer. , The fish were jumping up all over the lake, and they were biting splendidly. A shadow came suddenly over the lake, and I thought I smelt a strange smell that often precedes a norther. I immediately turned away from the lake and looked toward the northwest, and I saw a small dark cloud passing like lightning and knew I must hurry home. After looking a short time at the cloud I turned and looked at the lake, when to my astonishment, the lake was frozen over and many fish were lying on top of the ice. Tho fish had jumped up, and the lake had frozen over so quickly they could not get back. Stranger, maybe you think that is stretching things "a little, but I’ll tell you aTnorther can beat anything but lightning, and it can hurry that up mightily.” —Marshall Messenger.