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woman was took in, a bit. The husband was keeping it for bad weather.

I should think we should have no more snow, unless it is some lamb-snow, [meaning snow coming in April].

When the mist is hanging up on the Allt wood, the children used to say, — "Old Rhys [of] the Bwlch is boiling his pot, and it will soon boil over."

The sun and the wind do meet at three o'clock. [Sign of rain.]

New Year's tide, the days lengthen a cock's stride.

Candlemas Day, all candles away.

Where the wind was on the 21st of March, there it would be till the 2ist of June.

Quid March is never out till the 12th of April.

A cold May makes a full barn.

If her [missel-thrush] do sing in January, her'U cry afore May.

The first cock of hay, the cuckoo goes away.

I went away on Michaelmas Day,

And left my barn full of corn and hay.

I came again at May,

And it was all cliterdy, cloterdy, all gone away ! (Of the swallow.)

Never come Lent, never come winter.

The wasps leave their nests on the 26th of August.

December, the dark month afore Christmas.

Plant and prune, — the increase of the moon.

" I love to marry while the bloom is on my face." Girls used to say that. " She have left the sun gone over the hill."

You mustn't tread hard on a bear's foot, else er'll turn on you by and by, [said of a wife keeping away from her husband too much].

Funeral Custom.

When the mother-in-law of Mrs. Lewis of the Celyn was buried, — she lived in a funny old house on the left-hand side before you go to the bridge beyond Celyn, — they was pulling the plum-cake out of the oven, which was out of doors, and breaking lumps and giving it to everybody. Anne Thomas was then a tiny girl, and had a piece given her which she dropped, as it was too hot, but afterwards put it into her pinafore.