Weather Proverb

Weather proverbs are among the most curious portions of popular literature. That foul or fair weather is betokened according as the rainbow is seen in the morning or evening, is recorded in the following German "saw," which is nearly identical with our well-known English Proverb: Regenbogen am Morgen Macht dem Schäfer sorgen; Regenbogen am Abend Ist dem Schäfer labend. In Mr. Akerman's recently published volume called *Spring Tide*, a pleasant intermixture of fly-fishing and philology, we have a Wiltshire version of this proverb, curious for its old Saxon language and its comparatively modern…