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You can't get an old Detroiter, one., who values his reputation as a sage and a weather prophet, to commit himself on the weather. Yesterday, when our reporter found one, the question was put boldly and plumply: "Do you regard this as an April thaw, or has spring come?" " May be—may be; but I don't want to say," was the reply. " But the spring birds are here." " So people say," he replied. "The frost is about out of the ground." " It may be." "The grass is starting; the Bun is warm; the wind is balmy," persisted the reporter. " I dunno," mused the old man. " Buds are swelling ; lamp-posts begin to lean ; cross walks are under the mud, and it must be spring." " Not necessarily ; I saw all such things in January, 1832," he sighed. " All the streets have mud on them ; sinkholes abound ; velocipedes are out; all the women are on the gad ; snow-shovels are selling at half-price—this cannot be winter; this is sping, for sure." - " It may.be ; it may be," solemnly replied the old man. "In about a month I shall be prepared to speak more definitely."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4822, 5 September 1876, Page 3
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189NON-COMMITTAL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4822, 5 September 1876, Page 3
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