Is a very bad Sign, indeed. It first attacked Hercules when he was
attempting to come Van Amburgh over the Hydra. Hercules did not take the
Cancer very much to heart, however; but, with one blow, packed him off
to Heaven, where, there being a place vacant at the time in the Zodiac,
the Cancer was sworn into it, and has filled it very creditably ever
since. Cancer sometimes puts the seasons out of order, by thinking he is
a crab, and walking accordingly, which is always the case when the
summer is a little _backward_.