Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-09-15
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What He Knew About the Weather.

What He Knew About the Weather.
Pretty warm the man with the thin
clothes said to the man in the corner
seat rs the South Hill car was coming
down the Division street steps.
What's pretty warm: growled the
man in the corner.
Why the weather
What weather. : more gruiiy than
ever.
! Why the man with the thin
clothes said, looking as though he
wished he hadn't begun it, this
weather.
/ Well said the man in the corner,
'how's this weather any different from
any other:
/ The man in the thin clothes looked
nervously ut the dumb mule and said
( 1t was warmer.
How do you know it ls.' asked the
man in the corner.
The other man began to wish he
was ont OF il, apd said he supposed it
was: he hadn't heard how the
Isn't the weather the same every
where sa,agely demanded the man
in the corner.
Why, TO- the man with the thin
clothes replied, wishing TO goodness he
had a newspaper hide behind no
/ its warmer in some places and in some
places it's colder
What makes it warmer in some
places than it's colder in others: re-
morselessly pursued the man in the
corner.
Why the man with the thin
clothes said piteously, the sun, with
the effects OF the SUMS heat
Makes it colder in some places than
/ it's warmer in others roared the
man in the corner Indignantly. Never
heard of such thing
No. the man in thin clothes has
tened to explain. 4 don't mean that.
, The sun makes il warmer.
Then what makes it colder" pur-
sued the remorselesS man in the cor
ner.
The man in the thin clothes wiped
the headed perspiration from his pal
lid brow, and said slowly he guessed
| 1T was the ice
What ice::' demanded the inquisi-
/ tor.
Why the victim said, with all
symptoms of approaching dissolution
apparent in his tremulous voice, the
/ ice that Was-froZen-frozeu by the
+ frost
Did you ever see any ice that wasn't
! frozen:' howled tie man in the cor
ner iG IL burst of derlsion.
/ The man in thin clothes huskily
whispered that he wished he was
dead, and said: No; that is, he be-
lleved he didn t.
'Then,' thundered the man in the
corner, what are you talking about :?
The man in thin clothes then made
an effort to brace up, and spicily re-
piled that was trying to tax about
the weather.
And what do you know about it ?
triumphantly roared the man in the
corner. What do you know about
the weather. p
The man in the thin clothes lost
his grip again and feebly said he
didn't know very much about it, that
was fact And then he tried to be
cheerful and work in little joke
about nobody being able to know much
ab ,ut the weather, but the man in the
corner sat down on him with trem-
endous outburst.
NO. sir. should say you didn't.
You came into this Car and force your.
self on the attention of stranger and
began to talk to ME about the weather,
just as though you owned it, and | find
you don't know solitary thing about
the matter yourself selected for your
topic of conversation you don't know
one thing about meteorological condi-
ton, principle or phenomena; you
can't tell me why is warm in Aug gust
and cold in December; and don't
know icles form faster in the sunlight
than they do in the shade; you don't
know why the earth grows colder as it