People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Concerning Weather. [ARTICLE]

Concerning Weather.

When the atmoaperte foroes and all that sort of thing Bring the cold and cutting winter season here. And the iridescent snowflakes of which the poets sing Chase themselves, In ohlllr frolic, through the air; When the winds are penetrating, and the frost Is on the ground And pedestrian locomotion's rather slow: When the cars ore half an hour late whenever homeward hound Because the horses can't get through the snow; Then the voice of man arises, and he tells a funny tale As to how he lovos the gentle summer days, W hen the flowers nod and whisper in the lovely hawthorn dale. And he basks beneath the smiling sun's bright rays But when the whirligig of time brings "gentle summer" ou. And he wilts and melts beneath the scorching disk, The Inconsistent mortal sings another kind of song As to how he loves the winter oold and brisk. —Philadelphia Publlo ledger.

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