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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2294, 12 September 1908, Page 4

They were discussing the weather on ’Change at Auckland on Thursday (writes the. “.Dominion’s” correspondent). “I never thought it was goto rain,” lamented one man in the group, “so I left my umbrella at home.” “So did I,” chimed in another, “and my coat, too. The glass was high when I looked at it.” “The best glass 1 know,” observed a third speaker,. “is my daughter’s hair. It is naturally light in color, but whenever there is going to be rain it becomes lighter still. I have heard her mother advise her in the morning to take her mackintosh with her, and, on my daughter asking why, toll her to look at her fioir in the glass.” “Your daughter,” suggested the first man,-“ought to be .able t 0 got a good billet as iseistanb to Captain Edwin.” Uno would have thought, writes the recorder of the opisocKr, that by the possession of so reliable a “weather 'glass” the fortunate father would have been protected against showers. But, no, he could not- have seen his daughter before leaving home 4 , for ho closed the discuagion by seeking to borrow an umbrella. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure for Coughs and Colds never fails. Is £>d and 6<l.

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