JULY
This month was so named in honor of Julius Caesar, whose birth-month it was. The Saxons called it Hey Monat on account of the hay harvest.
The following old sayings regarding July may be noted with interest:—
(a) A shower of rain in July,
When the corn begins to fill
Is worth a plough of oxen
And all belonging theretill.
(b) Ne'er trust a July sky.
(c) Whatever July and August do not boil, September cannot fry.
(d) If the first of July it be rainy weather,
It will rain more or less for four weeks together.
(e) Dog days bright and clear
Indicate a happy year.
But when accompanied by rain,
For better times our hopes are vain.
(The dog days are from July 3rd to Aug. 11th.)
(f) St. Swithin's Day, if ye do rain,
For forty days it will remain.
St. Swithin's Day an ye be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair.
(St. Swithin's Day is July 15th.)
(h) Whoever eats oysters on St. James's Day will never want
money. (July 25th.)