JSO BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



THE FOLLOWING RULES ARE LAID DOWN BY LORD 



If the wainscot or walls, that used to sweat, be 

 drier than usual in the beginning of winter, or 

 the eves of houses drop more slowly than ordi- 

 nary, it portends a hard and frosty winter ; for 

 it shews an inclination in the air to dry weather, 

 which in winter is always joined with frost. 



Generally a moist and cold summer portends a 

 hard winter. 



A hot and dry summer and autumn, especially 

 if the heat and drought extend far into Septem- 

 ber, portend an opea beginning of -winter, and 

 cold to succeed towards the latter part, and be- 

 ginning of spring. 



A van?) and open winter portends a hot and 

 dry suiKimr, lor the vapours disperse into the 

 winter showers; whereas culd and frost keep 

 them in, and convey them to the late spring and 

 following summer.' 



* Birds that change countries at certain seasons, 

 if they come early, shew the temper of the wea- 

 ther, according to the country whence they 

 came; as, in the winter, woodcocks, snipes, 

 fieldfares, &c. if they come early, shew a cold 

 winter i and the cuckoos, if they come early, 

 shew a hot summer to follow. 



A serene autumn denotes a windy winter ; a 

 windy winter, a rainy spring; a rainy spring, a 

 serene summer; a serene summer, a windy au- 

 tumn ; so that the air, on a balance, is seldom 

 debtor to itself; nor do the seasons succeed each 

 other in the same tenor for two years together. 



Mr. Woriidge remarks, that if at the begin- 



