"A Saturday's moon,
If it comes once in seven years,
Comes once too soon."
The application of this is that if the new moon happens on a Saturday the weather will be bad for the ensuing month.
The Chinese represent the moon by the figure of a rabbit pounding rice in a mortar, and sometimes by a beautiful young woman with a rabbit at her feet. But, after all, we have got to let most of our fancies in regard to the moon go. They will not stand for a moment after one glance through an astronomer's telescope.
HOW JUMBO CROSSED THE OCEAN.