Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — HARD WINTER BEFORE US. [ARTICLE]

HARD WINTER BEFORE US.

We woul not presume to butt into the prerogatives of the weather prognosticators in this vicinity, and other re—lie—able sources, but have you not noticed very unusual signs of severe winter ahead of us? Notice a few: Pick up a this year’s pup by the nap of the neck, and though you can see but a glint of his eyes, lie never whimpers. This is because his hide is so thick in preparation. Other years he’d howl like a coyote if you did the same. Ask any butcher to explain the increased thickness of this year’s calf’s hides. Run your fingers through the fleece of a this year’s lamb. Any this year’s chicken that expects to go through this winter, has feathers down its legs. We are not a Hicks in reading weather signs, but any fool —though he run, may read the foregoing and draw conclusions without the goose bone which as yet is only in the embryo state.