WEATHER INDICATIONS.
If you can't afford a barometer to tell you what kind of weather you are going to have, perhaps the following old proverbs will prove of use in helping you to prophesy as to whether it will rain to-morrow or not:
If spiders in spinning their webs make the termination filaments long, we may, in proportion to the length, conclude that the weather will be serene, and continue so for ten or twelve days.
If many gnats are seen in the spring, expect a fine autumn; if gnats fly in compact bodies in the beams of the setting sun, there will be fine weather.
If the garden spiders break and destroy their webs and creep away, expect rain or showery weather.
If sheep, rams, and goats spring around in the meadows, and fight more than usual, expect rain.
If cattle leave off feeding, and chase each other around the pastures, rain.
If cats back their bodies and wash their faces, rain.
If foxes and dogs howl and bark more than usual, if dogs grow sleepy and dull, rain.