In Arkansas they have a winter; in Sydney they have the name of it, but not the thing itself.

I have seen the ice in the Mississippi floating past the mouth of the Arkansas river; and at Memphis, but a little way above, the Mississippi has been frozen over, from bank to bank.

But they have never had a cold spell in Sydney which brought the mercury down to freezing point.

Once in a mid-winter day there, in the month of July, the mercury went down to 36 deg., and that remains the memorable "cold day" in the history of the town.

No doubt Little Rock has seen it below zero.