A STRONG GALE OF WIND.
Lieutenant Bevan, of the Drake, was talking at the New York Horse Show about rough weather. Some one told the old story about | the winter day when it was so windy that the crows al*l had to walk .home, j, Lieutenant Bevan laughed at this story, saying he could see the black crows trudging along the road against the wind. Then he went on : "But the wind could have been nothing to the one my boatswain talks about. ■' 'This wind,’ the boatswain declares, ‘came on in the Bay of Biscay, and it blew so hard that it took four men to hold the captain s hat on, and even then it blew all the anchors off the buttons of his coat.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 8
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126A STRONG GALE OF WIND. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 8
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