FIVE TIMES ZERO.
OUR thermometer hangs just outside a window, and from the same window we can see a gilded horse used as a vane on a neighbour’s barn. *' The other afternoon a member of the family came in from a walk, exclaiming, is terribly cold !’ and stepping to the window, glanced at the thermometer and reported, ‘ Five below zero. ’ Ernest astonished us the next day by remarking gravely, after he had stood for some time by the window looking earnestly at the gilded horse, ‘ I tell you what, this is an awful cold day ! It is five times zero by that horse on Mr Thompson’s barn.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 19
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107FIVE TIMES ZERO. New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 43, 25 October 1890, Page 19
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