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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 806

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o show you from which directionthe wind is blowing; so will a flag on an uprightflagstaff. A gray early morning, not a heavy, cloudy one, knowledge of coming storms. We are told thatspiders are especially sensitive to weatherchanges, and, when they make new webs, theweather will be fair; if they… … IF THE SMOKF, RISKS HIOH, i r MI.ANs f l.F.AR VVE.ATHER. promises a fair day. This is well put in an oldrhyme which I advise you to commit to mem-ory if you do not already know it, for it givesthe weather significance of both sunrise andsunset: E\ening red and morning graySends the traveler on his…

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