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with a taste for astrology used to construct an 

 almanack by rule of thumb, predicting the weather 

 for the ensuing twelve months from the first twelve 

 days of January. As the wind blew on those days 

 so the prevailing weather of the months might be 

 foretold. The aged men, however, say that in this 

 divination the old style must be adhered to, for the 

 sequence of signs and omens still follows the ancient 

 reckoning, which ought never to have been interfered 

 with. 



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