People of unpoetic. souls who at this period of the year are overbur ened with the usual fantasies of terry month of May. will fee the leas appeased by the fact that the month has not been up to standard, With the possible exception of a brief bburrt of sunshine yesterday afternoon amid the showers and the mist, May has been 'a gloomy month. In fact, the proverbial lion which ends any month of April reckless enough 10 Hart out with lambellke. mildness, Seems 10 have lost all count of the owing. perhaps, to Leap Year, trid i sil at large long after his 0 Pointed term of once., Some people fay'it is the consequence of one. those eyotes which alternate extremes of beat and cold, an occurrence likely {o happen after the unusual freeze North China. Others, more certain of lack of contradiction, cock an eye heavenwards and have discovered an Upusual sunspot which portends four years of bad westher—so they soy. This ts a varlalon of the Buchan cycle quoted in England to explain the fates of he weather "slave! cautiously refrains" from. impugn the veracity of its famous Weather cock and says nothing, but whatever {s"the explanation. May has. proved disappointing to those" people who look forward to its sunny' charms every year but there i still time for it'to make amends and reveal more of the blue sky peeping" among. the aqiting clouds of May 12.
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