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The Clerk of the Weather or the Weather Clerk is "an imaginary functionary facetiously supposed to direct the weather."〔Thomas Davidson, ''Chambers's twentieth century dictionary of the English language'', 1907, ''s.v.'' 'clerk'〕 The Clerk of the Weather appears in children's stories by Rose Fyleman ("The Weather Clerk"),〔Rose Fyleman, ''Eight Little Plays for Children'', London, 1924〕 Robert Swindells (''The Weather-Clerk''),〔Robert Swindells (author), Petula Stone (illustrator), ''The weather-clerk'', London, 1979〕 and others. He also appears in facetious turns of phrase such as "another fine day was supplied by the clerk of the weather".〔"A Harbor of Rest", ''Warsaw (Indiana) Daily Times'', 8 October 1887, p. 1 (Google News )〕 In Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather" (1836), he is imagined as a 6000-year-old man living on another planet. Within his dwelling, he has a stock of thunderbolts, rainbows, hailstones, sacks of wind, and a "portable tempest, firmly secured with iron bands". His companions include Jack Frost and Spring.〔Nathaniel Hawthorne, "A Visit to the Clerk of the Weather", ''American Monthly Magazine'' 1(NS):(483 )〕 In Samuel Clemens' speech at the New England Society of New York in 1876, he attributed New England weather to "raw apprentices in the Weather Clerk's factory, who experiment and learn how in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it."〔''The New York Times'', 23 December 1876, quoted in (Twain Quotes )〕 U. A. Fanthorpe, in her poem "Special", refers to a class of children looking after a dog as 'Clerks of the Weather'.〔"Neck Verse", Peterloo Poets, 1992〕 ==Notes== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clerk of the Weather」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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