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It became a standing remark among the boys that he was a Union redbird and had enlisted in our regiment to sound the reveille. So the time passed pleasantly away until that eventful Sunday morning, April 6, 1862. According to the Tribune Almanac for that year, the sun rose that morning in Tennessee at 38 minutes past five o'clock.
In connection with it, the Americans intend to bring out a nautical almanac. Another topic from the same quarter is, that Professor Erni of Yale College has been making an interesting series of experiments on fermentation a process of which the original cause has never yet been satisfactorily explained, and is still a moot-point with chemists.
Now, my friend, I shall have to be private until nine o'clock in the evening, when I shall be again at your service. Meantime you may go to your room. I have ordered the one next to this to be prepared for you. But you must not be idle. Here is Poor Richard's Almanac, which, in view of our late conversation, I commend to your earnest perusal.
Jeanne, who had left the convent the day before, free at last and ready for all the happiness of a life of which she had dreamed for so long, feared that her father would hesitate about starting if the weather did not clear up, and, for the hundredth time since the morning, she studied the horizon. Looking round, she saw that she had forgotten to put her almanac in her traveling bag.
Because you will require it. Not just one day, but one hundred and twenty days in hardly varying succession. When you want to go visiting, or attend church, or the theatre, you never look up at the clouds to see whether it is likely to rain or not you look at the almanac. If it is Winter, it will rain and if it is Summer, it won't rain, and you cannot help it.
Every watch below, for a week, I pored over these papers, until I was sure there could be nothing in them that had escaped my attention, and was ashamed to keep them any longer. Saturday, March 5th. This was an important day in our almanac, for it was on this day that we were first assured that our voyage was really drawing to a close.
"Stick it beside the brogues; it may come in handy for somethin'. Here's a book" tossing the nautical almanac to the boy. "Tell me what it says." Dick examined the pages of figures hopelessly. "I can't read 'em," said Dick; "it's numbers." "Buzz it overboard," said Mr Button. Dick did what he was told joyfully, and the proceedings resumed. He tried on the tall hat, and the children laughed.
Let us take another instance. There is a high tide at 3.40 P.M. on the 25th August, and again the infallible Nautical Almanac tells us that the moon crossed the meridian at 5h. 44m., that is, at 2h. 4m. after the high water. In the first case the moon followed the tide in about an hour, and in the second case the moon followed in about two hours.
I never knew the almanac to drag so. . . I watch for your letters hungrily just as I used to watch for the telegram saying the machine was finished but when "next week certainly" suddenly swelled into 'three weeks sure, I recognized the old familiar tune I used to hear so much. W. don't know what sick-heartedness is, but he is in a fair way to find out."
After examining this rabble of women and children, the ridiculous flag which led them, and the rude disguises of the men: "It is some popular fete or some carnival comedy," said he; and again returning to the corner of the fire, he placed a large almanac upon the table, and carefully sought in it what saint was honored that day.
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