(_For the Mirror._)
Proverbs relating to the weather are of uncertain origin. The Glossary
explains the _Borrowing Days_ the three last of March, and adds
concerning the origin of this term, the following popular rhyme is often
repeated:--
"March borrow it fra Averill
Three days and they were ill,
Also March said to Aprill
I see three hogs upon a hill,
But lend your three first days to me
And I'll be bound to gar them die.
The first it sall be wind and weet,
The next it sall be snaw and sleet,
The third it sall be sic a freeze,
Sall gar the birds stick to the trees,
But when the _Borrowed Days_ were gone,
The three silly hogs came hedglin home."
_Complaint of Scotland._