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NEW REMEDY FOR A DROUGHT.
Mrs. Partington was in the country one August,
and for a whole month not one drop of rain had fallen.
One day she was slowly walking along the road, with
her umbrella over her head, when an old man, who was
mending up a little gap of wall, accosted her, at the
same time depositing a large stone on the top of the
pile.
“Mrs. Partington, what do you think can help this
'ere drought?”
The old lady looked at him through her spectacles, at
the same time smelling a fern leaf.
“I think,” said she, in a tone of oracular wisdom, “I
think a little rain would help it as much as anything.”
It was a great thought. The old gentleman took off
his straw hat, and wiped his head with his cotton handkerchief,
at the same time saying that he thought so
too.
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