A classic story of Mark Kirkby (1852-1918), told by Osbert Sitwell in his autobiography “Left Hand, Right Hand”.
“A character himself, he possessed an understanding of character in others which rendered him a doubly diverting companion. He would regale us, for instance, with stories of Mallender, who came from Mosborough, about a mile from where Mark lived, and was of so irascible a nature that on one occasion, when rain was pouring down and the weather-glass still marked fair, he seized the instrument and, taking it out of the house, shook it vigorously, and at the same time addressed it angrily with the words, “ Now see for thysen if it in’t raining ! ”
The Mosborough One-Place Study 