OLD MURRAY BAY 



Vivid and uausual colours in the sky 

 are of bad augury. 



Should sun or moon be Vrapt in a gauzy 

 veil', you may prophetically chant: — 



Blow wind from the south, 

 Blow mud in the mouth 

 of Jane, Jane, Jane. 



When the nor'west wind fails to blow 

 out clear, we say il a manque son coup, and 

 are aware that further trouble is to be 

 looked for instead of the three or four fine 

 days it should bring. 



A burning sun presages rain. 



Ciel pommel e, filie fardee, 

 N'ont point longue duree. 



More to the point, perhaps, to set down 

 a few weather saws that have something of 

 a peculiar and local application. 



When the South Shore looms unduly 

 near, and you can see every farm-house 

 and barn fifteen miles away as though 

 magnified by a glass, the unwholesome 

 clearness is due to invisible vapour that is 

 likely soon to condense in rain. This 

 state of the atmosphere is not to be con- 

 founded with the dry pellucidity of fine 

 weather which makes the outlines of 

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