A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits / gathered chiefly from oral tradition. By M.A. Denham.

  • Denham, M. A. (Michael Aislabie), -1859.
Date:
1846
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Credit: A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits / gathered chiefly from oral tradition. By M.A. Denham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Till St. James’s day* * be come and gone, You may have bops, or you may have none. Bow-wow, dandy fly, Brew no beer in July. Many rains, many rowans ; Many rowans,t many yawns.} AUGUST. Short harvests, make short addling*. Good harvests make men prodigal; bad ones, provident. nights,” so that the highest hills under heaven were covered with the waters. July 3rd, the dog-days begin. Our forefathers supposed that the malignant influence of the dog-star, when in conjunction with the sun, caused the sea to boil, wine to become sour, dogs to go mad, and all other creatures to languish; while in men it produced increase of bile, hysterics, phrensies, burning fevers, and other malignant disorders! They likewise had an opinion, that during those dajrs all physic should be declined, and the cure committed to nature: this season is called the Physician's vacation. * July 25th. t Rowans are the fruit of the mountain-ash; and an abundance thereof is held to denote a deficient harvest. } Light grains of wheat, oats, or barley.