NON-COMMITTAL.
You can't get an old Petroiter, one who values his reputation as a sage and a w.eather prophet, to commit himself on the weather. Yesterday, when our. reporter found one, the question was put boldly and plumply,; "Do you. regard, this as an April thaw, or has Spring come ?" "May be—may be ; but I don't want to say," was the reply. "But the Spring birds are here." " So people say," he replied. "The frost is aboutout of the ground." " It may be." " The grass is starting ; the sun is warm ; the wind is balmy," persisted the reporter. " I dunno," mused, the old man. " Buds are swelling; lamp-posts begin to lean ; cross walks are under the mud, and it must be Sprint*." " Not necessarily; I saw all such things in January, 1832," he sighed*. _ " All the streets have mud on them ; sink-holes abound ; velocipedes are out ; all the women are on the gad ; snow•hovels are selling at half price—this cannot be Winter; this is Spring, for sure." " It may be ; it maybe," solemnly replied the old man. "In about a month I shall be prepared to speak more definitely." *
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Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 384, 19 September 1878, Page 3
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189NON-COMMITTAL. Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 384, 19 September 1878, Page 3
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