A week or s0 ago the dryness of England became mews - within. the scope of faithful sender of "press telegrams, A grim picture was Painted of the countryfolk buying water for drinking purposes and of other people being adjured to exer-th their gardens. The cise economy in washing themselves,
matter was left there. It. would Almost seem, as if the drought were Dersisting. Two casual items of intelligence have boon telegraphed Intely to give a more encouraging outlook. The now fongotien, "hun [ger marchers" were disconcerted by the fall of rain in London, To-day it incidentally observed "that the King's first levee of the season was, from the: point of view of the Jspectators in the Mall, marred by the wetness of the weather. So, is to be hoped, that the great drought has been ended, Perhaps April will remember her reputation and weep 5" [copiously that cricket secretaries will not tremble for June. It is as well not to mention farmers; however the [barometer moves they will certainly grumble, Even an oasis in a desert would fail to daunt the British farmer in maintaining his perpetual feud with the Clerk of the Weather,
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