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Minor Notes.
_Sign of Rain._--Not far from Weobley, co. Hereford, is a high hill, on the
top of which is a clump of trees called "Ladylift Clump," and thus named in
the Ordnance map: it is a proverbial expression in the surrounding
neighbourhood, that when this clump is obscured with clouds, wet weather
soon follows, connected with which, many years since I met with the
following lines, which may prove interesting to many of your readers:
"When Ladie Lift
Puts on her shift,
Shee feares a downright raine;
But when she doffs it, you will finde
The raine is o'er, and still the winde,
And Phoebus Sloane againe."
What is the origin of this name having been given to the said clump of
trees?