Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — Weather Proverbs. [ARTICLE]
Weather Proverbs.
‘ ‘ A green winter makes a fat churchyard.” “If the grass grow? green in Janiveer, it will grow the worse for it all the year; if Janiveer calends be summerly gay, it will be winterly weather till, calends of May.” “A bushel of March dust is worth a king’s ransom. ” “A cold April the barn will fill.” “April and May are - the keys of the year.” V Look at .ypur eorn in May, and you’ll come again in June, and youll conie singipg in another tune.” “’The Kind" h.Td as lief see his wife on her bier bs that Candlemas-day shoqld, be pleasjmj ’ a,nd clear. ” “J list half of your xyoqdj and of your Jjay, should be remaining epi Candlemas-4ay.
