Spring And Summer


If the last eighteen Days of February and

ten Days of March be for the most part

rainy, then the Spring and Summer Quarters

are like to be so too: and I never knew a great

Drought but it entered in that Season.



IT is easy to discover by Observation whether this Rule be well or ill

founded, that is to say, whether our Shepherd's Ob
ervation will serve

for other Places or not, and where it will serve and where not. But it

may not be amiss to remark that it is highly probable, or rather

absolutely certain, that the Weather in one Season of the Year

determines the Weather in another. For instance, if there be a rainy

Winter then the Autumn will be dry, if a dry Spring, then a rainy

Winter. Our Forefathers had abundance of odd Sayings upon this Subject,

and some Proverbs for every Month in the Year, but I doubt they were

indifferently founded, however there can be no Harm in observing them,

in order to discover whether there be any thing in them or not.



Janiveer freeze the Pot by the Fire



If the Grass grow in Janiveer

It grows the worse for't all the Year.

The Welchman had rather see his Dam on the Bier

Than to see a fair Februeer.

March Wind and May Sun

Make Clothes white and Maids Dun.

When April blows his Horn

It's good both for Hay and Corn.

An April Flood

Carries away the Frog and her Brood.

A cold May and a windy

Makes a full Barn and a Findy.

A May Flood never did good.

A Swarm of Bees in May

Is worth a Load of Hay.

But a Swarm in July

Is not worth a Fly, &c.



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