Sayings regarding the month:--

(a) If it be fair on the First, it will be fair all the month.

(b) A wet June makes a dry September.

(c) September blow soft,

Until the fruit is in the loft.

(d) If Matthew's Day (Sept. 21st) is bright and clear

There will be good wine in the coming year.

(e) If the hart and the hind meet dry and part dry on Rood Day

Fair (Sept. 14th), for six weeks there will be no more rain.

(f) If on September 19th there is a storm from the south, a mild

winter is certain.

(g) If it does not rain on St. Michael's (Sept. 29th) and Gallus

(Oct. 16th), a dry spring is certain for the coming year.

(h) If St. Michael's (Sept. 29th) brings many acorns, Christmas will

cover the fields with snow.

(i) So many days old the moon on Michaelmas Day (Sept. 29th), so

many floods after.

(j) Michaelmas chickens and parsons' daughters never come to good.

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