Yesterday's Weather

"Mrs. Western spoke, or rather thundered an answer."  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

This is as good an explanation of the weather as we've heard from any meteorologist.  From Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

From True as Steel by Jules Marie Alfred Girardin, 1884.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

"A pleasure excursion," from The Foreign Freaks of Five Friends by C. A. Jones, 1882.

From Under Nordlysets Straaler by Sophus Tromholt, 1885.

Here's a picnic illustrated by John Leech, from Pictures of Life and Character, 1886.

Here's a scarecrow on a rainy day, from A Zigzag Journey in the Sunny South by Hezekiah Butterworth, 1887.

"Raising the wind," from Our New Way Round the World by Charles Carleton Coffin, 1883.

"Children's umbrellas"?  But as the Waldorf philosophy professes, "children should not be spared from experiencing the weight of objects."  This giant children's umbrella appears in an advertisement from 1899.

From The Child's Book of Poetry, 1886.