Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-19

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select for going in the fields after butter
flies when a little shaver.
Excusin' that section OF the Constitu-
ton OF the United States which requires
us TO honor our father and mother,
could have shook pa, he was so pig-head-
ed about the weather.
Everybody that came into the house
talked about the immense fall In the tenn
perature. and these remarks. instead Of
shaking the old mans convictions, only
made him flrmer I'm his predictions about
an early spring. The only concession he
made. I'm the face Of this mass Of cumula-
tive evidence against him. was to unwind
another Renaissance. lie told Of n cold
spell in the early thlrties, when he at
tended a certain funeral. The tempera-
ture. he said, was so low that the tears
froze i'm the eyes OF the bereaved family.
and battered like hailstones on the grave
Of the deceased. They had TO blast out a
hole I'm the ground with gunpowder be-
fore they could find a suitable place for
the coffin.
That's a good one, pa" said, but I
reckon II your lamented friend was as
mean a boy as you say you were, they've
pretty well-nigh thawed him out by now"
And the next day II showed
When the first fakes fell the old gem
tleman was like Alexander signing for
more worlds TO conquer. lie said the fall
ing weather was a dead sure sign Of early
spring. He even refused 10 argue the
question any more. He likewise refused
TO observe that orr thermometer had
gone down a rathole. II was so low.
And II kept on showing.
When II had lasted all day pa said he
knew his frlit-trees would be blooming
by the following Sunday. The snow made
him reminiscent. and he told of other
trfing SHOWS which. while most serious
I'm their amateurish way, were as nothing
I'm comparison with one great blizzard,
the details OF which he kept I'm reserve.
Pa complained OF rheumatism when he
went 10 bed that night at 7.30 o'clock,
and attributed II 10 the humidity In the
vernal atmosphere. The thermometer
was then 4 degrees above zero. And 1t
still showed.
The next day when the old gentleman
arose. at A. NJ, he must have secretly
felt some surprise at seeing the "heecy
element" still on a rampage, but II he did
he never let on. He was as complacent
at breakfast as II nothing unusual was
happening. once he remarked that we
kept the house too hot for this season Of
tho year but he didn't try 70 cool off by
his vest or eating in his
shirt-sleeves, as he does in the summer.
When / came up from down town that
night / said: "Well, pa, the oldest in
habhants tell me this Is the worst wea-
Their they've ever run across. l suppose
you'll be eating June apples next week,
won't you?'
The old man kept his temper, and then,
in a most forglving spirit, he magnani-
mously told us one Of his cherished
secrets-a secret he had been keeping
back for two days-the details Of the
great snow-storm OF 81 In comparison
TO that blizzard the storm we discussed
sunk into utter. hopeless significance.
We felt like telling the snow 10 stop
trying. but It kept on just the same. Pa
said he really thought this snOw-storm,
which excited us so much, M least de-
served recognition, as it served TO give
vague. indistinct idea or what the temp
est OF 81 had done.
That night the old man got 10 bed By
T o'clock. and his room was cold enough
TO freeze the horns or brass monkey
Ice formed in the pitcher and the red
wouldn't have thawcd out in q furnace.
Pa made smoke when he breathed. and
his chin u..erod so that We thought his
whiskers would fall out by the roots.
But he Jumped in and never murmured.
And stul E. showed ANA got colder.
About midnight, just as we had screwed
up the courage 10 take of our clothes
and started o. bed. we heard pa believing
like n pul
We rushed up 20 his room and found
him buried beneath rugs. pillows. the
r a, a @..s s ' s.. +. h, . .:s. 3.
This darn weather. IfN.r TUE Winter Va