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Both Mr. Pullen and Mr. Weaver remembered a way of forecasting the snowfall by the first snowfall. “Watch out for the first snowfall," Mr. Weaver ^aid. “How many days old the moon is then will be the number of snows that winter.”
Mr. Weaver said that, years ago, the weather was different, anyway. "We used to hang the meat outside and it would stay frozen all winter and never thaw,” he said. “Now, it’s one week cold, one week warm. And we used to have a good year for the crops and gardens every year.
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