Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — What Sir Walter Scott Thought Hot [ARTICLE]

What Sir Walter Scott Thought Hot

We complain of our hot weather, and yet we can scarcely realize what it must be to foreigners, as the British, who have never known the thermometer to mount above what to us is an antumn-like temperature. We consided England rarv and cold, and still the Scotch talk as Scott did of the Anglican youths’ better manners, as “ripened by the sun of the South.” Sir Walter makes some entries in his journal which soem very odd to us, with 90 degrees of heat by no means a rare thing in our experience. He dolefully indited that he was obliged to walk in the shade of the houses, because it was 08 in even that shade, I one day. And began another entry: “Hot! Hot! Hot! Sixty-five here. Seventy in Edinburgh. Foor Edinburgh!”