Receiving — to Give Again 

 Here is the actual result : — 



If the second column be added up, the sum- 

 total amounts to three thousand and fifty-seven 

 days. If the first column be also added up, the 

 sum-total amounts to nine hundred and forty- 

 seven days. A very simple calculation, which 

 anybody may work out, will show that the pro- 

 portion of *'Good" days towards ''Bad" days 

 is that of about Three to One. 



Who would have thought it ? Not certainly 

 the majority of friends to whom I have appealed 

 for an opinion. Not even an able scientific man, 

 who frankly confessed his astonishment. 



Over three-quarters of fairly Good Weather, 

 as opposed to under one-quarter of fairly Bad 

 Weather — and this the average of eleven years ! 



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