The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
The Weather Fiend.
rBurdset, in Burlington Havkeye

4 Cipltlt- S1lu 10 TIE m1u ~ NHC
seat a. the South-Hill car was coming
down the Division street steps.
What's pretty warmf' gro"led the
man In the corner.
WHY. the weather
What weather. more giuthy than
ever.
Why the man with the thin Clothes
said. looking as though he wished nc
hadn't begun it, this weather.
Well, said the man in the corner
'show this weather any different from
any oiherl"
The mau with the thin clothes looked
nervousIy at the dumb mule and Said,
1T was warmer.
How do you know it ISL asked the
man 10 the corner.
The other man began TO wish he wa
well out of it, aud SAID he supposed II
was; he hadn't heard how be
.sIsn't the weather the m every
where 3" savagely demanded the man Ir
the Corner.
why, no. the man with the thin
clothes replied, wishing to goodness he
had a newspaper to hide behind. NO;
it's warmer in some places, and in some
places it's colder"
"What makes it warmer some places
than it's colder in othersf" remOrselessly
pursued the man in the corner.
Why" the man with this clothei
said ~piteously, ''the sun. with the effects
of the suns heat"
Makes it colder in some places than
it's warmer in othersi' roared the man
in the corner Indignantly. Never heard
of such a thing"
NO" the man in thin clothes hasten.
ed to explain, Il didn't mean that. The
sun makes it warmer
Then what makes it colderi' pursued
| the remorseless man in the corner.
The man in thin clothes wiped the
beaded preparation from his pallid brow
and said slowly he guessed sit was the
ice"
What iceP' demanded the inquisi-
tor.
Why" the victim said, with all
symptoms of approaching dissolution ap
parent in his tremulous voice, ''the ice
that was-frozen frozen by the frost. -
Did you ever see any ice that wasn't
frozen?" howled the man in the corner
in a burst of derision.
The man in thin clothes huskily whis-
pered that he wished he was dead, and
said: "No, that is, he believed he
didn't"
Then" Numbered the man in the
corner, what are you talking about2"
The man in thin clothes made an effort
to brace up, and spicily replied that he
was trying to talk about the weather"
And what do you know about itf'
.riumphantly roared the mar in the cor
ner. What do you know about the
weather2"
The man in thin clothes lost his grip
again, and feebly said she didn't know
very much about it, that was a fact"
And then he tried to be cheerful and
work in q little joke about nobody being
able to know much about the weather,
but the man in the corner sat down on
him with a tremendous outburst.
No, SIT! | should say you didn't.
You come into the this car and forced
yourself on the attention of q stranger,
and begin to talk to me about the wealth
er, just as though you owned it, and [
find you don't know a solitary thing
about the matter yourself selected for
your topic of conversation; you don't
know one thing about meteorological con-
ditions, principles, or phenomena; you
can't tell me how it is warm in August
and cold in December; you don't know
icicles form faster in the sunlight thar
they do IN the shade; you don't know
why the earth grows colder as it comes
nearer the sun; you cant tell why a man
can be sun struck In the sha lie you can't
tell me how a cyclone is formed, nor how
the trade winds blow ; you couldn't find
the calm centre of a storm if your life
depended on it; you don't know what
a sirOccO is, o where the southwest
monsoon blows; you don't know the ave-
rage rainfall in the United States for the
past and current year you don't under
stand the formation Of fog and you can't
explain why the dew falls at night and
dries up in the day; yoH don't know
why a wind dries the ground more quick
ly than a hot sun you don't know one
so litary thing about the weather. and
you are just like a thousand and one
other people who always begin talking
about the weather because they don't
know anything else, when, by the ave
Of Boreas, sir, they know less about the
weather than they do about anything
else in the world"
And the man in the corner glared up
and down at the timid passengers in the
South Hill Car, but no man burst answer
him. And as for the man in thin clothes,
he didn't know for the life Of him wheth
er he had u sunstroke or an ague Chill.
he only knew that 1t seemed about TWEEN
ty-seven miles to the jefferson street
crossing.