[_Sir John Bridge_: Don't you think there is a great deal of
chance as to the weather we are to have to-morrow? _Mr. Muir
Mackenzie_: No. _Sir John Bridge_: The mass of mankind think
there is. _Mr. Muir Mackenzie_: Unfortunately the mass
of mankind are very ignorant.--Bow Street Police Court,
Wednesday, September 6.]
Oh, Mr. MUIR MACKENZIE! we're right glad
To hear this news of meteorology.
Farewell to all the many doubts we've had,
The thing's as easy now as A B C.
_You_ know to-morrow's weather at a glance,
So, though we would not willingly o'ertask you,
When next we seek the weather in advance,
We'll simply drop a letter-card to ask you.
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A CURE.--"No," said Mrs. R., after some consideration, "although I
do feel a touch of rheumatism now and then, yet I do not fancy going
abroad for treatment. There's some place where you drink waters and
take a bath, and then are tucked up in bed for the remainder of
the day. It's in Germany, I fancy, and I think they call the place
_Underdelinen_."
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