Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-02-18
Tough Weather, but Connde abl Y
Thousher Yarns About L.

we re haSiu some pretty Wt0trisn
weather. said old Daddy Wotherspoon
to | BcIe SAMMY llonnlwsll. as the
two gentlemen met near the City Hall
Yesterday Right for'ard weather for
the season.
'J,st so, list So conceded Uncle
Sammy. Reminds me OF the fsll OF
1881. II commenced. long the fore
par; Of November and froze till March.
Good. smart weather To. remem Der
that i. was so cold in Brooklyn that
November that~ biliu' water froze over
hot fire. .'a@s7
Daddy WoiheEspeon ieoked at him
,,..s"4i mind 1t well. That's the fall
that the milk frcze in the COWS
But the cold season was in 1927. 1t
commenced in the middle oil October
and rau through to April. All the
oil froEc in the lamps and we didn't
have light nntil spring set in
Az, ay. responded Cacle Sammy,
growing rigid. It's Just l,key Yesterday
10 ME walked hundred and forty
miles due east from Sandy Hook, on
, the ace. and slid back, owing to the
lconyeIlty Of the earth, Won know. II
was down hill coming this way. But
that wasn't as cold As the winter OF
ls2l. The season commenced in Sep
tember, and the mercury didn't rise
degree until May. Don't You re-
member how We used 10 breathe hard
lei il freeze, eut hole IN ID and crawl
IN for shclserp You haven't forgotten
that"
Not L. said Daddy Wotherspoon,
after short pause. That's the win
ter we used to give the horses lead
to drink. and Kept q hot fire under
EN- SO it wouldn't harden till they
got it down. Bat that was nothing
to the spell Of 1917. got throug h
that whole spell by living in an ic.
house. Ii MAS too cold TO 60 on,
doo:s, and | jist camped in an ice
house. You remember that season oi
Of 1917? That's the winter we wore
undershirts of sand paper to keep up
q friction g..
We'll, should say | did, retorted
Uncle Sammy. What. remember
1877? Deed | do. That was the
spell when it took steam grindstone
four days to light match. Ay, ay!
But do you know / was uncomforta
bly, warm in that winter?'
How SOP demanded Daddy Wo.
. h.r har ri
'Runnin' around your ice house tc
find out where you got in. 1t was
an awful spell though. How long
did it last? From August till the
30th of June. / guess you're right
But You mind the snap ofIsl3, don''
you9 1t commenced on the 1st oi
July and went around and Tapped over
week. This year the smoke froze in
the chimneys, and we bad to blast il
out with dynamite. | think that was
the worst We ever had. All the clocks
! froze up so we didn't know the time
! for year, and when men used to set
fire to their buildings SOS to raise
the rent. Yes, indeed. | got three
thousand dollars month for four
burnin' buildings. There was heap
of suffering that winter, because we
lived on alcohol and phosphorus. till
the alcohol froze, and then we ate the
birthstone ends of matches and jumped
around till they caught fire. Say
you ... e..
But Daddy Wotherspoon had fed
The statistics were to much for him
lfthere be a language in the world
for which there is 80 lexicon or gram.
mar, it is that in which a woman
thinks but never speaks. 1t is all thai
is left of the language spoken in
Paradise, s-st. -st .. -rba
After all, our worst misfortunss
never happen, and most ,miseries ii.
in anticipation. ss ia. HN@,
The dreamer is madman, quies
cent; the mailman is dreamer in ac
! tion,