Show beng in leap tear A curious belief about leap year is perhaps not known as the ladies privilege rustic folk in many parts of england firmly believe that in leap year all lands of beans are produced in the pods in the reverse position to that which is usual or as an old laborer in surrey once phrased it in leap year the eye is to the point in other years to the that is tho stalk there is ample evidence thai in the last 1888 in many widely separated parts of ohp country the beans were observed to b produced in the pods in this manner and the rustic belief that this was caused by the fact of its being leap year wag naturally strengthened bat by some agriculturists the phenomenon was taken to Q a sign of plenty and there ia no doubt that beans grow in thia manner in other years tha the bissextile but whenever the occurrence happens to coincide with the latter tho superstition is cure to lwft yankee blade |