Gunnison Valley News | 1919-07-25 | Page 6 | Leech as Weather Prophet

LEECH AS WEATHER PROPHET Those Familiar With Small Creature's Habits Can Foretell Changes That Are at Hand. An excellent weather prophet can be made by placing a leech In a glass jar of water. If the weather Is to continue fine the leech lies motionless at the bottom bot-tom of the jar, and rolled together in a spiral form. If it is to rain, either before or after noon, It will be found to have crept up to the top of Its lodging, where It will remain till the weather is settled. If We are to have wind, the poor prisoner gallops through his limpid habitation with amazing swiftness, and seldom rests till it begins to blow hard. If a remarkable storm of thunder and rain is to succeed, the leech, for some days before, lodges almost continually con-tinually without water, and gives Itself It-self up to violent throes and convnJ-sive-like motions. In frost, as In clear summer weather, It lies constantly at the bottom ; and In snow, as in rainy weather, it pitches Its dwelling on the very mouth of the Jar.