"The winters nowadays are nothing compared with those of the old times, when we used to get more rain during the cold months than now, said Mr. Dallas. I remember many occasions when it was so cold that by the time we had reached Canal Creek—we left Warwick many hours before the sun was up—icicles had formed on our beards below the lower lip through the moisture from the breath becoming frozen. Many of the passengers who elected to sit up in front with the driver on such occasions received great frights as they stroked their beards and pulled off lumps of ice, he said with a laugh …" (Old Coach Days, Warwick Daily News, 22 Jul 1936, p.2)
"The winters nowadays are nothing compared with those of the old times, when we used to get more rain during the cold months than now, said Mr. Dallas. I remember many occasions when it was so cold that by the time we had reached Canal Creek—we left Warwick many hours before the sun was up—icicles had formed on our beards below the lower lip through the moisture from the breath becoming frozen. Many of the passengers who elected to sit up in front with the driver on such occasions received great frights as they stroked their beards and pulled off lumps of ice, he said with a laugh …" (Old Coach Days, Warwick Daily News, 22 Jul 1936, p.2)
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