How to tell fortunes

by Aaron A. Warford

35. If there be a damp fog or mist, accompanied with wind; wet.

36. If there be a halo round the moon, in fine weather; and the larger the circle, the nearer the rain.

37. If the stars above 45 degrees, especially the North Star, flicker strongly and appear closer than usual, there will be rain.

38. If the morning be clear and sunny, in summer or autumn, there will be rain.

39. If the fields in the morning be covered with a heavy wet fog, it will generally rain within two or three days.

40. “A rainbow in the morning is the shepherd’s warning.”

FOR STORM.

41. If the clouds be of different heights, the sky above being grayish or dirty blue, with hardly any wind stirring; the wind, however, changing from W. to S., or sometimes to S. E., without perceptibly increasing in force.

42. If there be a clouded sky, and dark clouds driving fast (either with the wind or more from the south), under the higher clouds, violent gusts of wind.