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day were placed, for instance, in the V division, 

 the next equally doubtful day would be carefully 

 placed in the I division, to ensure accuracy. 



At the end of each month all these four 

 classes were added up separately. Also, to 

 simplify results, the Good and the Half-^ood, 

 the Bad and the Half-bad, were classed in two 

 columns as comprehensively Good and Bad. 

 From these two columns curious results were 

 obtained. 



It should be stated that the lady in question 

 lived at Reigate, and was seldom absent from 

 home, never more than for a few weeks at a time. 

 The record is thus mainly of one place. Now 

 and again a short absence occurred, and her 

 observations were then carried on wherever she 

 might be ; but the absences were so few and 

 generally so short as to be unimportant. 



Before going farther, it is worth while for the 

 reader to ask himself, perhaps also to ask one or 

 two friends, what might be the proportions of 

 *' Good " and '' Bad " days that he or they would 

 expect to find in the English climate, as the 

 result of such a computation ? 



Would it be three-quarters bad and one-quarter 

 good ? Or could it be possibly half bad and half 

 good ? 



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