Our cold season is very rapidly drawing end, and we are preparing ourselves to face the questionable delights of the hot weather, and here in the Deccan it can be hot.
An unkind fate has cheated us of our ordinary amount of cold weather. One does feel it very keenly when fate plays us these litle pranks, heeanse the cold season ix the one time of all the year to which we look forward to recotip ourselves after the trials of the hot weather and the 1g and unhealthy rains. But this time it is not merely a question of personal discomfort, for not only has our winter been hotter. but as scarcely a drop of rain has fallen for the last three months a drought is pre-railing all over India except in Simla and in the Southern districts. vu an aver-azo all over Ind fall has been no less than 49 per cent short. during this winter season. Consequently our hot weather is approaching with abnormally rapid strides for the time of year. and unless we hare 2 good rainfall in the monsoon we shall og have cause} for anxiety on account of the crops and scarcity and in some parts famine wil!
in be affronting us. The more we have seen of famine the more are we convinced that our greatest and most effectual weapons to combat}
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