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Show Ground Hog Superstitio The Scotch say, "If Candlem.'.s Is fair and clear, there'll be twa winters win-ters In the year." There Is a La.'in proverb of the snme Import. Th French have a similar rhyme and so have the Germans, and peoples of other oth-er European countries, for according to the superstition, the ground hog, or some of his kind, perforins on this day. In Germany It Is the badgei whose shadow portends cold weather: in France, the marmot; in England the hedgehop; and elsewhere the bear Amerifrin pioneer3 merely fastened npon the ground hog on Idea brought from abroad. |