]?0 BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



pect rain; if red, it is a sign of wind; and if 

 white, and of her natural colour, and the sky 

 clear, it will be fair weather, according to a poetU 

 cal adage, 



Pallida luna pluit, rubicunda flat, alba serenat. 



If the moon is rainy throughout her course, it 

 will clear up at the ensuing change, and the rain 

 will probably commence again in a few days after, 

 and continue ; if, on the contrary, the moon has 

 been fair throughout, and it rains at the change, 

 the fair weather will probably be restored about 

 the fourth or fifth day of the moon, and continue 

 as before. 



Sin ortu quarto (namque is certissimus antor) 

 Pura, neque obtusis per coelum cornibus ibit, 

 Totus et ille dies, et qui nascentur ab illo 

 Exactum ad mensem, pluvia ventisque carebunt. 



Virg. Gcorg, 132. 



But four nights old (for that's the surest sign), 



With sharpen'd horns, if glorious then she shine: 



Next day, not only that, but all the moon, 



'Till her revolving race be wholly run, 



Are void of tempests. DRY DEN. 



N.B. A gentleman who cuts hay for his own 

 consumption, will seldom fail to find his account 

 in marking this observation ; but a farmer who 

 has much business to do, cannot contract his 

 work into so, small a compass, as to save himself 

 by the benefit of this observation, because some 

 of his work must be done to make way for the 

 rest. 



