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Title: Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture for This Year and Next

Author: John Cecil Clay
Oliver Herford

Release Date: December 2, 2007 [EBook #23681]

Language: English

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CUPID'S ALMANAC

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THE PROPOSAL PLANT

_Heartis Throbolae_

LOVEYOULIA Family.

This must not be confused with the Wild Popper weed, _Paterfamilias
Furiosis_, which if not kept in its bed, often chokes off the Proposal
Plant and prevents its blooming.

CUPID'S

ALMANAC

_and GUIDE to_

_HEARTICULTURE_

for

_This Year and Next_

Compiled for D. Cupid
by John Cecil Clay
and Oliver Herford

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_Published by_

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Boston and New York

COPYRIGHT 1908 BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published September 1908_

THIRD IMPRESSION

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* * * * *

TO
LOVERS
AND
LOVERS
OF
LOVERS

* * * * *

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WEATHER: SPRING TIDES: PLANETS' MOTIONS: SUN AND MOON'S RISING AND
SETTING: LENGTH OF DAYS: TIME OF HIGH WATER: FAIRS: COURTS AND HOLIDAYS.

_Tides_

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In most of the coastwise states the tides will keep coming in as usual,
but the wonderful changes in the flow of the Gulp stream will have a
canny effect on some of the interior states.

_Rains_

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This will be a dry year.

_Length of Days_

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The days will be longer this year for those not in love than they will
be for us.

_The Golden Number_

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The Golden Number this year is only 2.

_Fairs_

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The Fairs will be just as fair this year as last--if anything, a little
fa