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PREFACE 5
JANUARY 9
FEBRUARY 17
MARCH 24
APRIL 37
MAY 52
JUNE 67
JULY 85
AUGUST 94
SEPTEMBER 100
OCTOBER 109
NOVEMBER 116
DECEMBER 121
INDEX 131
PREFACE In this collection of Weather Lore and Poetry I beg to acknowledge with gratitude permission from Messrs. Macmillan to quote lines from Tennyson, Charles Turner, Alfred Austin, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, T. E. Brown, and Francis Doyle.
From Messrs. Longman and Green from Jean Ingelow, from "Four Bridges," and "An Afternoon at a Parsonage." Andrew Lang, from "A Ballade of Summer." William Morris' from "The Earthly Paradise," and "Love is Enough," and Edwin Arnold, from "Bloom of an Almond Tree."
From Messrs. Kegan Paul and Trench from Lewis Morris. From Messrs. Chatto and Windus for the inclusion of verses by A. Swinburne, and from the Walter Scott Publishing Company for the use of Selections of R. W. Emerson and Owen Meredith. I have endeavoured to avoid infringing copyrights, but if I should have done so inadvertently I beg that my sincere apologies maybe accepted.
M. E. S. WRIGHT.
A MEDLEY OF WEATHER LORE
A MEDLEY OF WEATHER LORE
JANUARY
Ancient Cornish name for the month: Mis-jenver, cold air month.
Jewel for the month: Garnet. Constancy.
If Janiveer calends be summerly gay, 'Twill be wintry weather till the calends of May.
The wind of the South will be productive of heat and fertility; the wind of the West, of milk and fish; the wind from the North, of cold and storm; the wind from the East, of fruit on the trees.
At New Year's tide The days lengthen a cock's stride.
A cold January, a feverish February, a dusty March, a weeping April, a windy May, presage a good year and gay.
Warwickshire countrymen to ensure good luck bow nine times to the first New Moon of the year.
A snow year, a rich year.
The blackest month of all the year Is the month of Janiveer.
Through all the sad and weary hours Which cold and dark and storms will bring, We scarce believe in what we know-- That time drags on at last to Spring.
The empty pastures blind with rain.
If the grass grow in Janiveer 'Twill be the worse for 't all the year.
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storm.
Under water famine, under snow bread.
March in Janiveer, Janiveer in March I fear.
A year of snow a year of plenty.
Winter time for shoeing; Peascod time for wooing.
On Twelve-eve in Christmas, they used to set up as high as they can a sieve of oats, and in it a dozen candles set round, and in the centre one larger, all lighted. This in memory of our Saviour and His Apostles, lights of the world.
In the South-hams of Devonshire, on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times:
"Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow! And whence thou mayst bear apples enow! Hats-full, caps-full! Bushel-bushel-sacks-full! And my pockets full too! Huzza!"
OLD CUSTOM OF BLESSING APPLE TREES ON TWELFTH DAY.
Apple-tree, apple-tree, Bear apples for me: Hats full, laps full, Sacks full, caps full: Apple-tree, apple-tree, Bear apples for me.
"Twelfth-Day--came in a tiffany suit, white and gold, like a queen on a frost-cake, all royal, glittering, and Epiphanous."
January the fourteenth will be either the coldest or wettest day of the year.
ST. ANTHONY.
It is affirmed of him that all the world bemoaned his death, for afterwards there fell no rain from heaven for three years.
ST. VINCENT.
Remember in St. Vincent's Day If the sun his beams display, 'Tis a token bright and clear, That you will have a prosperous year.
Winter's thunder's summer's wonder.
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