Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-08-18
Weather Proverbs.

Weather Proverbs.
Among the most curious and interest.
ing Of the proverbs which have sprung
from the common sayings md ex
pcriences of the people Of various
nations are those relating TO the weather
We have a good number Of them in our
own language, and lest they may he
forgotten in these days when any one
may learn at breakfast, from the tele-
gram in the morning paper, what cold
Prob predicts the weather OF the day
will be, We have selected few Of the
most popular. How true is The we'll
known saving:
Evening gray and morning red
Send the shepherd wet 20 bed
Evening rcd and morning gray
Are she sure sign Of very fine day.
Also this:
Mackcrcl -ky, nackcrcl sly.
Never long wet and never long dry.
And again:
Rain before seven.
Pine before eleven"
There are but few children who
cannot repeat the familiar ditty:
\ rainbow in the morning
l. tho shepherd. warning:
4 rainbow at night
H. tho shepherd delight
In which it will be remembered that
in the morning the rainbow will appear
in the West in the evening in the East.
The sailor often takes the place of the
shepherd in these lines II is to this
proyerb that Lord Byron alludes in his
beautiful verses
" b. thou the rainbow 90 the storms u life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray"
Then again, how true is the old say
ing;
Whom tho wuA be- northwest.
Tho weather Is at tho bct;
Bui u tho rain comes uut of the east.
Twill rain tsice twenty 1pur hour at the least.
The above are general proverbs, appli-
cable TO all times but We have an un.
usual number which describe the evils
of too carly approach Of spring, OF
rather Of spring weather Thus for
January We have:
/ Ii tho rraa- grove .u Jauivacr.
II grows the WORE fort all ihs year
And again
"A s Jauuars spring
I- worth nothing
For February we find
Ofall 'hs months Iu year.
Comes a fair Frbucc5"
And for March, in quaint old English
A- msuy tnis'e-.-. "a MARCH,
80 many irrt.-cs in MAY
I Also the well-kuown adage:
+. - March como. .n il.c . lion. b, goo. cont HA
/ lamb
. II Sc comes iu IIE. O. lamh. t e,a. au' like
lion.
I Everybody knows the fafniliar.
April -hovors
Bring May q teer.
To which ~e AL J
A cold Arrl
4 Tho barn viii 49,
!. And another, praising the prolonga
: tion Of the fierce winds OF March
Whom April llov- has horn.
Ts good both foT hay and com.
For May We have thc simple
Mist IN May and boa' ri juno.
Make the harvest como night soon
And again
Who dof- his coat on a winters day,
Will gladly pui IL ou IN May"
For June stands the single couplet
"A dripping Juno
Brur- an thip-p IN tame
To the farmers in Wiltshire, England
we are indebted for all these proverb
relating to the first six months of th
year, and proclaiming the acknowledge,
faSt that a long winter and tard,
spring promise more abundant crop
than the pleasanter but unseasonabl
warmth which sometimes gladdens on
hearts in late winter and in early spring
That such premature mildness of tn
seasons does not really advance vegeia
tion, every one who cultivates a gardei
well knows.
This proverb has been found to b
true, There's always one fine week il
February"
The oak and the ash are thought t,
foretell the heat or wetness of the sum