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Show Old Tim? Astronomer. . ' Old Mooro," under whoso nnwo nl- (- mannca nnd prophecies havo boen np- R pearlng regularly for generations, was p not a charlatan. Ills nnmo was Henry i Androws. Ho was n bookscllet o( ( London and, according to nn old yoar- j book, "his prophecies wcro as much laughed nt by himself as by the Wor- I shlpful Company of Stationers, for I whom ho manufactured them, In or- ' dor to randor Mooro's almanac salablo j among thu Ignorant, In whoso eyes a f lucky hit covered a multitude of blun- I dors." Androws "had a very extra- I ordinary genius for nstronorny nnd E was groatly 03tecmed for his Integrity J and modesty by every scientific man C who was personally acquainted with I him." |