...custome is of great antiquity, and that it is derived from the gentiles." (Aubrey, MS. Lansd. 231.) If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. It is generally the case that fine weather continues if it is mild at Candlemas. A somewhat similar...

...that is recorded in some of the old almanacs, marking it as unlucky if the sun shines clear : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright. Winter will have...and rain. Winter is gone, and will not come again." Another version runs thus : «Tls an omen bad, The yeomen say, If Phoebus shows his face The second...

...PUBIFICATION OF SAINT MAKY THE VIRGIN. SOJIETIUSS CALLED CAHDLEMASS DAT. February 2nd. It Candlemass Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemass Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. And tometiines called "...

...primaveral period, that it has given rise to several proverbs. We have heard from infancy the adage, p iC :! h F h t a Z i 1_Y_ 9 ,' H颗$3/ D $ t @3 According to different journals, examined by Dr. Forster, this is generally correct. About this time...

...distich : — Si sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glades post festum quamfuit ante. " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, "Winter will have another flight ; If on Candlemas day there be shower and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." Another version...

...Again,— 41 If Candlemas be fair and bright Winter will have another flight; Bat if Candlemas-day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Won't he? — we are not quite so sure of that, all traditions, suppositions, and depositions to the...

...Mary, the frost will be greater after the feast than it was before." A mediceval proverb ; similar to " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." Si sftmulos pugnis ccedis, mariibus pliis dolet. PLAIJT. — " If you thump a goad with your fists,...

...has given rise to several proverbs, among the rest : — 1 Steinmetz, ' Manual of Weathercasts.' " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight.' ' The flowering of the Snowdrop is the harbinger of spring, although, as Mrs. Barbauld fancifully says,...

...distich : Si sol splendi-scat Maria purificante, Major erit glacies postfestum quamfuit ante. • " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; If on Candlemas day there he shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Another version...

...distich : — 8i sol splendescat Maria purificante, Major erit glades pott festum quamfuit ante. " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; If on Candlemas day there be shower and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." Another version...