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._


The Country Almanack for 1676, says of April--

"No blushing blasts from March needs April borrow,
His own oft proves enow to breed us sorrow,
Yet if he weyr with us to sympathize,
His trickling tears will make us wipe our eyes."


In the British Apollo, the meaning of the old poetical saying is asked--

"March borrows of April
Three days and they are ill,
April returns them back again
Three days, and they are rain."


In Devonshire the three first days of March are called "blind days,"
unlucky days, and upon them no farmer will sow his seed.

Dr. Jamison in his Dictionary of the Scottish Language, says "These days
being generally stormy, our forefathers have endeavoured to account for
this circumstance by pretending that March borrowed them from April,