Plague is still increasing steadily and Tfear is bound to go on increasing until the Jeold weather is over but ut least this yew Hits increase is not as supid as in many Jother years. With regard to plague, 0 quaint "superstition reigns in the Central Provinces. It is believed there that crows jate able to detest plague in a house and at once carefully avoid it, The result is that the country folk in these parts anxiously watch the movements of the wily crow. If shuns a house in which there bus been 'a case of plague, they evacuate it. If he happens to return and perch on its roof, this a sure proof that all farther danger from the past is over, and they can return sulaly:
their homes.
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