THE LATEST WEATHER-WISE DOGGEREL.
By a Scientific Rain-maker.
[It is stated that rain may be brought down by the explosion of dynamite and blasting-powder attached to oxyhydrogen balloons and kite-tails.]
Evening red and morning grey
Will send the traveller on his way;
But—blasting-powder on kites' tails spread,
Will bring down rain upon his head.
Retort by a Washed-out Wayfarer.
If dynamite would bring fine weather,
Scientists might be in fine feather,
As 'tis, I sing, to the schoolboy tune,
"Yah-bah! (oxyhydrogen) balloon!"