5/22/2023 0 Comments Writer jerome k jerome![]() ![]() We said we hadn’t given the matter sufficient consideration as yet to enable us to arrive at a definite conclusion on that point, but that, if he assured us on his word as a gentleman that we were trespassing, we would, without further hesitation, believe it. … But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.> We had just commenced the third course-the bread and jam-when a gentleman in shirtsleeves and a short pipe came along, and wanted to know if we knew that we were trespassing. It “forecasts” precisely what happened yesterday or a the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. > I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this “weather-forecast” fraud is about the most aggravating. Full of digressions, each of which is just about precisely the right length. ![]() Light, amusing and occasionally brilliantly written (I'm a sucker for alliteration). ![]()
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