Part 33

Bacon.

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AUGUST 1ST. (Snipe shooting may begin.)

Snipe's song: "Don't take" local name for Snipe.

Nipcake, don't take, Don't take, don't take; Gie the lasses milk and bread, And gie the laddies don't take, Don't take, don't take.

Scottish Midlands.

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AUGUST 5TH. (Old Style.)

St. James's Day. Oyster Day.

Who eats oysters on St. James's Day will never want.

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Wheat sways heavy, oats are airy, Barley bows a graceful head, Short and small shoots up canary; Each of these is some one's bread--

Bread for man or bread for beast, Or at very least A bird's savoury feast.

C. Rossetti.

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It is always windy in barley harvests; it blows off the heads for the poor.

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On Thursday at three Look out and you'll see What Friday will be.

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No weather is ill If the wind be still.

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For morning rain leave not your journey.

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Never a fisherman med there be, If fishes could hear as well as see.

Kent.

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If the sage tree thrives and grows, The master's not master, and that he knows.

Warwick.