THE HANDBOOK OF HYMEN'Tis the opinion of myself, Sanderson Pratt, who sets this down,
that the educational system of the United States should be in the
hands of the weather bureau. I can give you good reasons for it;
and you can't tell me why our college professors shouldn't be
transferred to the meteorological department. They have been
learned to read; and they could very easily glance at the morning
papers and then wire in to the main office what kind of weather to
expect. But there's the other side of the proposition. I am going
on to tell you how the weather furnished me and Idaho Green with an
elegant education.
We was up in the Bitter Root Mountains over the Montana line
prospecting for gold. A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying
a line of hope as excess baggage,
