Show A conundrum 1 I courted my wife three years before I 1 got her confided ft a friend and a lot of that was waited ume time 11 why we shuddered your wife to Is a most moat excellent woman indeed she Is I 1 can lick the man that says she aint but I 1 have hava discovered that I 1 could have got her in twelve weeks if id had bad the gall to nek nak tor for her did I 1 waste time or IT cleveland plain dealer weather prophets Years ago A century and a half ago people used to depend upon the weather prognostications in partridges almanac one day partridge himself put up at a country inn for dineno the hostler advised him to stay the night might as it would certainly rain nonsense said partridge and proceeded on hla his way soon a heavy sh shower ower fell which so impressed the traveler that he instantly rode back to the inn and offered the hostler half hair a crown it ho be would tell him how he know the rain was imminent well replied the man with a grin pocketing the coin the truth Is we have partridges almanac here and hes such a liar that whenever he promises a flue fine day we know it will be foul Tod today ayls as set down as one the weather prop tat like many other weather prophets before and sinca sanco passed on discomfited |