"--_Local Paper._
Most extraordinuary.
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[Illustration: _Generous Stranger._ "WILL YOU HAVE ANOTHER PINT? (_No
answer._) I SAY--WILL YOU HAVE ANOTHER PINT?"
_Hodge._ "DON'T 'EE ASK ZILLY QUESTIONS. ORDER IT."]
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THE MYSTERY.
George and I are two ordinary people. He studies the Weather Reports every
day; I do occasionally. He thinks he understands meteorology; I don't. But
lately I felt that I _must_ have some explanation of the weather, so I
asked George to explain it.
He said, "Certainly; it's quite simple. Take wind. Wind is caused by
differences of _pressure_."
"What _is_ pressure? Who is pressing what?"
"Pressure is what the barometer tells you--not the thermometer; you must
keep the thermometer out of this. Suppose it is very hot in London--"
"Don't be ridiculous."
"Well, suppose it is very hot at a place A--"
"I thought we were keeping the thermometer out of this."
"It comes in indirectly. But don't keep interrupting. If it is very hot at
the place A, the air at A rises. You see?"
"No."
"Obviously it does. If you light a candle--"
"Yes, yes, I do see that. Don't begin about candles."
"Well, the result of that is that there is less _pressure_ at A. In other
words, there is more room for the air to move about. When that happens the
air at the place B--"
"Where is that?"
"Oh anywhere. I told you to think of two places, A and B.
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