OLD MURRAY BAY 



the nord-est is a shallow in-draught to- 

 wards an approaching area of low pressure 

 which will probably find its easiest path 

 down the lakes and the St. Lawrence. You 

 may see the low clouds hurrying the other 

 way. I have watched the migratory fish- 

 eating gulls, then tarrying in the bay till 

 the lakes should be free of ice, spend the 

 afternoon between the two currents; now 

 sailing up with a full nor'easterly gale, 

 now rising through air-eddies — where I 

 suppose no aeroplane could live — to be 

 swept back on the mighty wings of the 

 sou'wester. Either it was the superbest 

 coasting that living creatures might enjoy, 

 or they were minded to escape from a tem- 

 perature of 42° to agreeable warmth aloft. 

 Buffeted by the chilly blast, we envied them. 

 Tradition gives the nord-est three days to 

 blow itself out, but it may fall short of this, 

 or take a new lease of life. A rising glass 

 announces and accompanies it; no change 

 is to be looked for till a falling barometer 

 shows the approach of the depression, with 

 its sequence of shifting winds by the south. 

 If the wind goes the other way about 

 'Trust it not, for back 'twill run.' 



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