When the day lengthens,
Then the cold strengthens,

On Old Christmas day (7th January new style) the day has lengthened a
cock's skip.

January White.

If the grass grows in January it grows the worse for it all the year.


ST. PAUL'S DAY, 25TH JANUARY.

In some verses dedicated To all my worthy Masters and Mistresses, by
_John Small_, Bell-man, Stamford, 1850, is the following:--

If Saint Paul's day be fair and clear,
It doth betide a happy year;
If blustering winds do blow aloft,
Then wars will trouble our realm full oft,
And if by chance to snow or rain,
Then will be dear all sorts of grain.


FEBRUARY.

February fill dyke.