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Masonic And General Archaeologia.
Whereas' A dry and cold "March never begs its bread . ' According to an old superstition , the weather at the end of March is alwai's the exact opposite of that at the beginning , hence the familiar saying , ' March eoni ' . ' . s in like a lion and goes out like a lamb , ' which is sometimes transposed to suit the season . The Scotch form is' March comes in with an adder ' s
, head , but goes out with a peacock ' s tail . ' Old St . Matthew ' s Day , the 8 th of this mouth , is supposed to influence the weather . ' St . Matthew breaks the ice : if he finds none he will make it . ' The last three days of March are called the ' Borrowing Days , ' said to have been a loan frcm April to March , 'there are various versions of this story . In North Ireland , says a writer in the Leisure Hour ( 1876 p . 158 ) it is said that March had a spite against an old
, , womm , and wished to kill her cow ; failing to do so in his own month , he borrowed three clays of April to . enable him to complete the task , but whether he succeeded does not appear . In Scotland , the story varies b y supposing he had a grudge against three pigs , instead of a cow . In this case the result of all his attacks on them was that 'the little pigs came hirpling hame . ' Sir Walter Scottin a note to his ' Heart of Midlothian' says the three last days of
, , March ( old style ) are called the borrowing clays , for , as they are remarked to be unusually stormy , it is feigned that March had borrowed them from April to extend the sphere of his rougher sway . In an ancient Romish calendar quoted by Brand ( Popular Antiquities , 1849 , vol . ii ., p . 41 ) , there is an obscure allusion to the borrowing days . It is to the following effect : — ' A rustic fahle concerning the nature of the month ; the rustic names of six days which shall
follow in April , or may be the last of March . ' Aubrey tells us that the vulgar in the West of England ' do call the month of March Lide , ' ancl quotes an old rhyme : ' Eat leeks in Lide , and Ramsins ( garlic ) in May , And all the year after Physitians may play . ' In the West of England ' a bushel of March dust' is sometimes said ' to be worth a king ' s ransom . '"—English Folk Lore .
Little Britain.
LITTLE BRITAIN .
( Continued from page 402 . ) He was doomed , however , to share the unpopularity of his family . He found his old comrades gradually growing cold and civil to him ; no longer laughing at his jokes ; ancl now and then throwing out a fling at " some people" and a hint about " qualit y binding . " This both nettled and
per-, plexed the honest butcher ; and his wife and daughters , with the consummate policy of the shrewder sex taking advantage of the circumstances , at length prevailed upon him to give up his afternoon pipe and tankard at Wagstaff ' s ; to sit after dinner by himself , ancl take his pint of port—a liquor he detested —and to nod in his chair in solitary and dismal gentility . The Miss Lambs might now be seen flaunting along the streets in French
bonnets , with unknown beaux , and talking and laughing so loud that it distressed the nerves of every good lady within hearing . They even went so far as to attempt patronage , ancl actuall y induced a French dancing-master to set up in the neighbourhood ; but the worthy folks of Little Britain took fire at it , and did so persecute the poor Gaul , that he was fain to pack up fiddle and dancing pumps , and decamp with such precipitation that he absolutely forgot
to pay for his lodgings . I had flattered myself , at first , with the idea that all this fiery indignation on the part of the community was merely the overflowing of their zeal for
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Masonic And General Archaeologia.
Whereas' A dry and cold "March never begs its bread . ' According to an old superstition , the weather at the end of March is alwai's the exact opposite of that at the beginning , hence the familiar saying , ' March eoni ' . ' . s in like a lion and goes out like a lamb , ' which is sometimes transposed to suit the season . The Scotch form is' March comes in with an adder ' s
, head , but goes out with a peacock ' s tail . ' Old St . Matthew ' s Day , the 8 th of this mouth , is supposed to influence the weather . ' St . Matthew breaks the ice : if he finds none he will make it . ' The last three days of March are called the ' Borrowing Days , ' said to have been a loan frcm April to March , 'there are various versions of this story . In North Ireland , says a writer in the Leisure Hour ( 1876 p . 158 ) it is said that March had a spite against an old
, , womm , and wished to kill her cow ; failing to do so in his own month , he borrowed three clays of April to . enable him to complete the task , but whether he succeeded does not appear . In Scotland , the story varies b y supposing he had a grudge against three pigs , instead of a cow . In this case the result of all his attacks on them was that 'the little pigs came hirpling hame . ' Sir Walter Scottin a note to his ' Heart of Midlothian' says the three last days of
, , March ( old style ) are called the borrowing clays , for , as they are remarked to be unusually stormy , it is feigned that March had borrowed them from April to extend the sphere of his rougher sway . In an ancient Romish calendar quoted by Brand ( Popular Antiquities , 1849 , vol . ii ., p . 41 ) , there is an obscure allusion to the borrowing days . It is to the following effect : — ' A rustic fahle concerning the nature of the month ; the rustic names of six days which shall
follow in April , or may be the last of March . ' Aubrey tells us that the vulgar in the West of England ' do call the month of March Lide , ' ancl quotes an old rhyme : ' Eat leeks in Lide , and Ramsins ( garlic ) in May , And all the year after Physitians may play . ' In the West of England ' a bushel of March dust' is sometimes said ' to be worth a king ' s ransom . '"—English Folk Lore .
Little Britain.
LITTLE BRITAIN .
( Continued from page 402 . ) He was doomed , however , to share the unpopularity of his family . He found his old comrades gradually growing cold and civil to him ; no longer laughing at his jokes ; ancl now and then throwing out a fling at " some people" and a hint about " qualit y binding . " This both nettled and
per-, plexed the honest butcher ; and his wife and daughters , with the consummate policy of the shrewder sex taking advantage of the circumstances , at length prevailed upon him to give up his afternoon pipe and tankard at Wagstaff ' s ; to sit after dinner by himself , ancl take his pint of port—a liquor he detested —and to nod in his chair in solitary and dismal gentility . The Miss Lambs might now be seen flaunting along the streets in French
bonnets , with unknown beaux , and talking and laughing so loud that it distressed the nerves of every good lady within hearing . They even went so far as to attempt patronage , ancl actuall y induced a French dancing-master to set up in the neighbourhood ; but the worthy folks of Little Britain took fire at it , and did so persecute the poor Gaul , that he was fain to pack up fiddle and dancing pumps , and decamp with such precipitation that he absolutely forgot
to pay for his lodgings . I had flattered myself , at first , with the idea that all this fiery indignation on the part of the community was merely the overflowing of their zeal for