Punch,  38 (1860), 248.

Clerk of the Weather Office

Phoebus Apollo

Genre:

Advertisement, Spoof

Subjects:

Meteorology, Astronomy


    Announces that owing to 'the Zodiac being taken up for repairs, there will be no Summer or Autumn this year', and that winter will begin on 1 July and terminate 'some time next year'.



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