clipses

Updated: November 17, 2024

I had heard of such things as 'clipses, but neither the almanac, nor the old woman's universal, said a word about it. Altho' there was such a wind, there was the most burning heat one could hardly breathe, and the baby lay pale and gasping we thought it was a dying.

Mrs. F. (Frederick) Beavan - Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick: Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence: Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony