S. G. C.
Weather Superstitions.—If it rains much during the twelve days after Christmas Day, it will be a wet year. So say the country people.
"If there is anything in this, 1853 will be a wet year, for it has rained every day of the twelve." So wrote I under date January 9.
No one, I think, will deny that for once the shaft has hit the mark.
R. C. Warde.
Kidderminster.
Weather Rhymes, &c.—The following are very common in Northamptonshire:
"Rain before seven,
Fine before eleven."
"Fine on Friday, fine on Sunday.