EVENING RED AND MORNING GREY 



change colour before a storm, losing their bright green and 

 turning to a dun brown. 



To all of these signs with their significance of coming 

 rain your shepherd will give a proper prominence in his 

 mind, marking one, and then searching for another 

 until he is certain. His first clue on any hilly ground is : 



7 



That sheep will not wander into the uplands but keep 

 browsing in the plain. 



Having taken note of this he turns to plants, par- 

 ticularly to his own weather glass, the Scarlet Pimpernel, 

 as he sees : 



8 



That the Pimpernel closes her eye. That the down will 

 fly from off the dandelion, the colts-foot, and from thistles 

 though there be no wind. 



Of night signs there are many, but chiefly : 



9 



That glowworms shine very bright. 



10 



That the new moon with the old moon in her lap comes before 

 rain. 



11 



That if the rainbow comes at night 

 Then the rain is gone quite. 



12 



Near bur, far rain. 



This of the bur, or halo, to be seen at times about the 

 moon. 



For a last thing they say : 



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