48 On Wiltshire Weather Proverbs and Weather Fallacies. 
we have upon March, without exception, indulge in a fling at its 
unhappy fickleness. Thus, in true Wiltshire language :— 
‘‘ As many mistises in March, 
So many frostises in, May.” * 
And the well-known adage :— 
‘¢Tf March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb; 
If it comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion.” 
And again :— 
“ Better to be bitten by a snake than to feel the sun in March.” + 
For April again :— 
«<A cold April 
The barn will fill.” ¢ 
And again :— 
‘¢ April showers 
Bring summer flowers.” 

* The German proverb which corresponds with this, enunciates a somewhat different law :— 
** 50 viel Nebel in Marz, 
So veil’ Regen im sommer.” 
+ Elsewhere the same horror of too genial a March finds expression in the following proverbs ;— 
‘‘ March many-weathers rained and blowed, 
But March grass never did anybody good.” 
*‘A wet March makes a sad harvest.” 
In Germany ;— 
; “ Marzengriin 
Tst nicht schén.”’ 
“ Marzenbluth ist nicht gut, 
Aprilenbluth ist halb gut, 
Maienbluth ist ganz gut.’’ 
In France :— 
** Pluie de Mars 
Ne profite pas.” 
And in Spain there is a proverb to the effect that :-— 
*¢ A March sun sticks like a lock of wool.’”” 2 
The sobriquets ‘‘ foolish March,” and ‘‘ Many-weather March,” also show the estimation in 
which that treacherous month is generally held. 
+ There is a Spanish proverb that “ A cold April brings bread and wine ; ”— 
** Abril frio 
Pan y vino.” 
Andin Germany — 
‘Ist das April kalt und nass 
Dann wachst das Gras,” 
*€ April 
Thut was er will.” 
And again ;— 
