162 BKST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



tored about the fourth or fifth day of the moon, 

 and continue as be tore : 



Sin ortu quarto (namque iscetissimrw anctor) 

 Pura, aetjne obtusis per coehmi corn thus ibit, 

 Totus ctille dies, etqui nitscentur ab ilio 

 Exactiun ad mensem, phivun ventisqiiecarelmuf. 



VIRC. GEORGE. 132. 



But four nights okT, (for that's the surest si^n,) 

 Wuh sharpen'c] honis, if' o-luriou-s then she shin : 

 Next day, not only that, but af! the moon, 



her revolving race be \\ koJJy ran, 



void of tempests. 



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

 f OOSumptioiij ^'i! seldom fail to rind his account 

 in oiatuiti^ t.iis observation ; but a fanner who 

 has much business to do, cannot contract his 

 work into so small so com pass, as to save himself 

 by the benefit of this observation, because some 

 ot his work must be done to make way for the 



ICbt. 



V 



SIGNS FROM THE WINDS. 



When the wind veers about, uncertainly, ro 

 several points of the compass, rain is pretty sure 

 to fo.low 



Some have remarked, that if the wind, as it 

 veers about, follows the course of the sun, from 

 the cast towards the west, it brings fair weather; 

 if the contrary, foul; but there is no prognostic 

 of rain more infallible, than a whistling or howl- 

 ing noise of the wind. 



FROM NOCTUHKAL METEORS. 



When an Aurora bo real is appears, after some 

 warm days, it }* generally succeeded by a coldness 



