The two divisions had been fighting hard for over three weeks, they had marched long distances on hard food, which at the finish was not too plentiful, and the sudden violent change in the weather conditions made it desirable that the men should get to an issue of warmer clothing.

He saw the weather-vane go square about, and where he had known for three hundred and sixty-five days the gentle, balmy feel of the southwest zephyr, he found himself standing of a sudden in a cold, bleak northeast wind.

"Darrow," said I, "there's one thing you've overlooked; you forgot to bring a cupola and a gilt weather-cock for this concern.

Then of course there is the pimpernel, known as the shepherd's clock and poor man's weather-glass; while the small purslane and the common garden lettuce are also included in the flower-clock.

Here he is, sir, two p'ints on our weather beam.

Dave grasped at the rail on the weather quarter, while Dan bent over him, hauling hard.

Most remarkable in the history of mathematics are the calculations published by the weather-prophet of the Express.

Kept a weather eye out watching for the coming of Donnegan.

These sentiments look beautifully as class mottoes on summer graduation programmes, but some of them, apparently, disappear from circulation before cold weather sets in.

In many instances his meteorological notions are the result of observation, although in some cases the reason assigned for certain pieces of weather-lore is far from obvious.

"Do you remember the thing about the screech-owl and the weather signs?" said the Colonel, roused at last by the jig on his toes and the rattle of improvised "bones" almost in his face.

The Sea Lion of the Vineyard was doing her best, all this time; and though unable to keep her station on her consort's weather bow, where she had been most of the morning, she was dropped so very slowly as to render the change nearly imperceptible.

A warning was sent out from the weather bureau, and I got my carpets ready to lift that morning.

" "I think the day was what I call a weather breeder.

I replied that Ned Herring was but a fair-weather friend, who had joined fortunes with us to get out of London and escape the Plague, and how having robbed us, we were like never to see his face again.

We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and, on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my stateroom.

Gin the weather changes, or threatens to, let the traps go and strike for the toon.

Fair and warmer; the problem of weather forecasting and the work of the United States Weather Bureau.

"Take the wheel," said he to me; and then followed the orders, in quick succession: "Lay aft, and man the bracessee every thing clear forward, to wear shipsteadyease hershiver away the main-topsailput your helm uphaul in the weather fore-braces,gather in the after-yards."

Not a plant or weather-stain was visible on its rough, unsettled surface.

You see, Mr. Effingham, we were running along a weather-shore, as close in as we could get, to be in the eddy, when a squall struck her a-beam, and she luffed right on to the beach.

As Captain Lane stood by the port rail, he saw right under his quarter, a large, low, black brig, with her decks crowded with men, and guns protruding from her ports; while on the weather rail, clinging with one hand to the shrouds, stood a strange, demoniacal-looking figure, holding in his outstretched hand, above the water, a burning blue light.

CHAPTER VI A NASTY KNOCK Frost sparkled on the office windows and Cartwright, with his feet on the hearthrug studied an Atlantic weather chart.

Conceive the feelings of an old Lapland witch, who has had for the last fifty years all the winds in a sealskin bag, and has been selling fair breezes to northern skippers at so much a puff, asserting her powers so often, poor old soul, that she has got to half believe them herselfconceive, I say, her feelings at seeing her customers watch the Admiralty storm-signals, and con the weather reports in The Times.

The weather fine, and there was plenty of time to prepare.