Two worthies in Auchterarder were disputing as to who remembered the most windy day. One said he "minded" its being so windy that it took the rooks three hours to come from a field to their rookery, which was about a mile distant. "Is that a'?" said the other. "Man, I've seen it that windy that the rooks had to walk hamc !" A monument is about to be erected to the memory of the late Czar, in the grand court of the Kremlin at Moscow, which is to co*t L 130.000.
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Evening Star, Issue 7495, 13 April 1888, Page 2
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