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Scarcely was this accomplished when the storm came on, much to the surprise of the weatherwise, who had not calculated upon such an occurrence, not having seen any indications whatever of it in the heavens.
This is intended for the use of mariners and husbands who are weatherwise. Very well!
I'm like the weatherwise man's pupil; as good as my master, give me time. The master could tell you, at sunrise, whether the day would be wet or dry, and the pupil he could tell you at sunset: and that is just the odds between old Smitem and me." "Well, if he is old Smitem, I'm old Fightem."
His progress was slow, and he paused to rest on the edge of a small clearing, in the center of which, well back from the highway, stood a tiny cabin. In the doorway an old man, with a short cutty-pipe between his lips, leaned upon a crutch and surveyed the sky with weatherwise eyes.
"A storm's coming," said Henry, who was weatherwise, "and we must get the cattle in." These sons of the forest did not fear rain, but they hurried on their clothing, and they noticed, too, how rapidly the storm was gathering. The heat had been great for days, and the earth was parched and thirsty.
A tall dark figure stood between us and the little window as we went in, blotting out all the light. Milly gave a faint cry of surprise; and as the figure turned towards us I recognised Mr. Egerton. In all our visits among the poor we had never met him before. 'Caught again, young ladies! he cried, laughing; 'you've neither of you grown weatherwise yet, I see.
"Why, yes, perhaps I did," replied the person addressed; "for I know I calculated that we should get through by daylight." "Well, my weatherwise father, to say nothing about this storm, instead of the promised sunshine, does the progress, made and now making, augur very brightly for the other part of the result?"
For all his singing, I know that Adam is anxious and he's weatherwise, is Adam! There's something in the air. The papers have begun to talk, and everywhere you turn there's the same damned curiosity about Aaron Burr and New Orleans and Mexico and the Washita lands! Moreover, when a man's as quiet as Mr. Jefferson is just now, I suspect that man. Best to get quite out of reach of a countermine.
And when Sunday morning dawned and the floodlike downpour had subsided to a gray and steady rainfall, even Caleb, none too weatherwise, knew that it had come to "stay fer a spell." He knew that the boy who had come marching down the valley road, two days before, was going to stay, too, if it lay within his power to persuade him.
'So you acknowledge that birds things of nature have their bad time? 'They profit ultimately by the deluge and the wreck. Nothing on earth is "tucked-up" in perpetuity. 'Except the dead. But why should the schooner be at our command? 'I shall be in Ireland. He could not have said sweeter to her ears or more touching. 'We shall hardly feel safe without the weatherwise on board.
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