The Severe Weather.
Standard, January 5,
For over so long people bav<i 6eca and praying for a real good old English Winter, and now they hava got it. There is nob a eicgle element in that implored-for boon that is wanted. Scow has fallen, if fitfully and only in places, yet there with more than ample abundance; and cross country postmen have difficulty in deciding which are roads, which are fields, and, indeed which are hedgerows and in carrying their precious burdens to their destinations. Frost has visited ua with a keenness that vies with almost every known record of its performances, twonty-seveu degrees having bean registered the night before last in Kent. Along with these general accompaniments of a truly winter season, there has happily come a universal opportunity of skating. It is not only ponds, and pools, and lakes and canals and shallow reaches and broads hat have been frozen over thickly - but flowing rivers have been arrested in their seaward course j and folks are making confident.y merry on the higher bends of the ihames, the Severn, and the Aron. Th a Jen country is, of course, magnificently proTided with sheets of splendid ice ; and ironmongers of London, of provincial towns, and even ot remote villages ore doing h brisk trad?. hen the frost set in there was the usual, number of incautious people to run the risk or being drowned, and only too many paid the forfeit of their temerity. But the very deepest sheets of water are now almost as solid and safe as the high road 5 and her© m London the Serpentine and the waters io Hegents Park are treated a 9 though they rested on adamantine foundations. It would all be Perfect, if we could only ward off the fogs; and when tb*sun does happen to shin© brilliantly in London, as it has been do ng days, then our old fashioned English Winter is supremely delightful l*cle o d, we are
getting a taste of the weather enjoyed every winter by our lucky Transatlantic Canadian brethren; and if wo could only promise ourBelvea three weeks or a month of the steadfast glacial period, we could take the wheels off our carriages and put them on sleighs or resort to tobogganing with a light heart. It is the glorious uncertainty of our camate that compels us both to be wary and yet not to waste the golden moments now vouchsafed us The cold brings with it, no doubt, a certain unwillingness at least with the mind ; for sitting still chills the marrow, and, finally, the brain, and one longs to be chopping wood or cleaning away snow, most of all, to he spinning along, at the rate* of twenty miles an hour, on a pair of well-* adjusted acmes, with the ducks and wild fowl rather out of it, and wondering whan this suspension of their customary rights of piscary is going to cease..
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7082, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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491The Severe Weather. South Canterbury Times, Issue 7082, 2 March 1893, Page 2
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