After much ticking off of days upon fingers, with an old newspaper as
"something to work from," the date of the full moon was fixed for the
twenty-fourth or twenty-fifth of March, unless the moon came in so late
on Tuesday that it brought the full to the morning of the twenty-sixth.
"Seems getting a bit mixed," Dan said, and matters were certainly
complicated.
If we were to reckon from the twenty-first, Easter was in March, but if
from the twenty-fifth, in April--if the moon came in on Monday, but March
in either case if the full was on the twenty-sixth.
Dan suggested "giving it best." "It 'ud get anybody dodged," he said,
hopelessly at sea; but the Maluka wanted to "see it through." "The new
moon should clear most of it up," he said; "but you've given us a teaser
this time, little 'un."
The new moon should have cleared everything up if we could have seen it,
but the Wet coming on in force again, we saw nothing till Thursday
evening, when it was too late to calculate with precision.
Dan was for having two Easters, and "getting even with it that way"; but
Sam unexpectedly solved the problem for us.
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