Putnam patriot., 1912-02-16

the sun morning and evening, fore.
 boded no evil. It was the wisps O cirri; the high-up filaments that cam, from nobody knew where, that die the mischief. "Look out for the rair seed" said one keen weather prophet "When the sheep go for water ralr will come," added another. The rair seed l identified in the separate indi yidual clouds forming collectivel- = i well-known "mscke seI the
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 The sheep indicated by my friend were of very different order and mis- sion. They are small round clouds, de- cidedly sheep in aspect, that dash in at the breach after a storm has been some tune brooding-brisk little fel- lows that seud through the gray mass of clouds as if with relays of heated currents of air or electricity, and their arrival on the scene invariably precipi- tates action. IL was good year for sheep if not for mackefel. Spring uShered in a series of snow storms, in which they figured largely, and on election day, April 5, turned out with such force and spirit as almost to pre vent the election of the Connecticut governor. But they were lame-Gke in comparison with those that appeared ] the following week, April lS, when q pa7ly was in prospect. The morning a> tair snd mild, but soon after noon gray linn rapidly thiekened with ] sheep scudding up from the south, sno i such 3 Snew.SgoTm came on sS iS set ! dom seen in April, We should hsv, called IL 8 blizzard" had We knowr there were such articles reFriol,
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