Show Old Weather Saws Based on Good Sense Admiral Fitzroy who Invented In the I barometer and commanded the brig I Beagle on Its expedition to the American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican coast In 1831 1331 declares that most of or the old saws regarding weather are reliable and based on commonsense commonsense commonsense common- common sense investigation As a weather erpert expert expert ex- ex pert he be commended an old saying to the effect that the glow Oi cf dawn high In the sky denotes wind and a low dawn fair weather He Re bade us believe that soft looking delicate clouds mean wind fair weather and hard ragged ones wind Mist Mast on a hilltop means rain and wind If it It stays long or comes down fine down fine weather If It rises and dis perses Rain Is due when distant objects ob ob- objects look near as on what Is called a good hearing day dare And rain Is foretold foretold fore tore told by pigs car carrying straws to sties The pig as a prophet appears in anold an anold anold old riddle Question Why is a storme to presently when a company of hogges runne lunne crying home Answer A hog Is most dull and t It f a n melancholy nature and so by reason doth cloth foretell the raine mine that cometh In time of ot raine mine most cattell doe up their theil ears as for example example example ex ex- ample an asse will when he lie perc I a storme storine of ot mine raine or hall hail doth follow |