168 OF PROGNOSTICKS. CHAP. 4. 8. 



An April flood carries away the frog and her 



brood. 

 A cold May and a windy, makes a full barn and 



a findy. 



The merry month of May. 

 April and May are the keys of the year. 

 May, come she early or come she late, she'll 



make the cow to quake. 



Beans blow before May doth go. 

 A May flood never did good. 



Look at your corn in May, and you'll come 



weeping away. 

 Look at the same in June, and you'll come home 



in another tune. 

 Shear your sheep in May, and shear them all away. 



A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay ; 

 But a swarm in July is not worth a fly. 



Calm weather in June sets corn in tune. 

 If on the eleventh of June it rain,* 

 It foretells a wet harvest, men sain. 

 If the second of July it be rainy weather,f 

 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together 

 A shower in July, when the corn begins to fill, 

 Is worth aplough of oxen, andallbelongs there till. 

 * St. Barnabas. t The Visitation. 



