The wheel of fortune turns quicker than a mill wheel. (Spanish).

What's worse than ill luck? (English, Scotch).

What is worse than ill luck? The anticipation of it -hence the wisdom of the Irish saying: "Every man has bad luck awaiting him some time or other, but leave the bad luck to the last; perhaps it may never come."

When fortune opens one door, she opens another. (German).

When fortune reaches out her hand one must seize it. (German).

When fortune smiles on thee take advantage. (English).
"When smiling fortune spreads her golden ray,
All crowd around to flatter and obey,
But when she thunders from the angry sky,
Our friends, our flatterers, our lovers fly.'

Ovid.

When luck is wanting diligence is useless. (Spanish).

"For there's nae luck about the house,
There's nae luck at a';

There's little pleasure in the house

When our gude man's awa'."

W. J. Mickle.

When you're in ill luck, a snake can bite you even with its tail. (Martinique Creole).

Who changes country, changes luck. (Italian).

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"Who changes his condition changes fortune." (Italian). Change of pasture makes fat calves." (English).

Who has luck warms himself without fire and grinds without wind or water. (German).

Who has no ill luck grows tired of good.

(Spanish).

Whom fortune favours the world favours. (German).

You must have good luck to catch hares with a drum. (Danish).

WEATHER PROVERBS

A cloudy sky on Friday and Saturday, says Bhadarri, is a sure precursor of rain. (Behar).

"Bhaddar," Mr. John Christian tells us, was a
local poet of some fame. He interpreted the
signs of the seasons in rhymes which have passed
into proverbs.
When very young he was
stolen from his home in Shahabad by a famous
magician or astrologer, who carried him away to
his country and adopted him. Bhaddar became
so thoroughly proficient in astrology and all
the mystic arts, that his patron gave him his
daughter in marriage."

A fine Saturday, a fine Sunday; a fine Sunday, a fine week. (English).

"Fine on Friday, fine on Sunday; wet on Friday, wet on Sunday." (French). "There is never a Saturday without some sunshine." (English).

A foul morn may turn to a fine day. (English). See Proverb: "If it rains before seven, 'twill cease before eleven."

"A misty morning may have a fine day." "Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings.' "Rain before seven, clear before eleven." "If rain begins at early morning light, 'twill end ere day, at noon is bright." (English). "Morning rains are soon past." (French). "When it rains in the morning, it will be fine at night." "When it rains about the break of day, the traveller's sorrows pass away." (Chinese). "Three foggy or misty mornings indicate rain." (American: Western U. S.)

A flood in the river means fine weather. (Welsh). "A river flood, fishes good." (Spanish).

After a rainy winter follows a fruitful spring. (English). "If there is much rain in winter, the spring is generally dry." (Greek). "Rain in September is good for the farmer, but poison to the vine growers." (German).

After clouds a clear sun. (Latin).

"After clouds clear weather." "A southerly wind and a cloudy sky proclaim it a hunting morning." "When clouds after rain disperse during the night, the weather will not remain clear." 'Cloudy mornings turn to clear evenings." "When the clouds of the morn to the west fly away, you may conclude on a settled fair day." "If clouds be bright, 'twill clear tonight; if clouds be dark, 'twill rain, do you hark?” “If the sky beyond the clouds is blue, be glad, there's a picnic for you." (English).

A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard. (English, Scotch, Danish).

See Christmas and Easter Proverbs and Contradicting Proverbs: "A black Christmas makes a fat churchyard."

"Many slones, many groans." When there is abundant fruit on the black thorn, there will follow a hard winter with much poverty and suffering. "Many nits, many pits." When the nut trees are full of nuts, one may expect a large number of deaths and burials. 'When roses and violets flourish in autumn, it is an evil sign of plague and pestilence during the following year." (English). John Ray, commenting on this proverb, declared that there was no great mortality nor epidemic in England during the summer and autumn of 1667, yet the preceding winter was unusually mild and that the last great plague that visited the country followed a very severe and frosty winter.

A mackerel sky never holds three days dry. (English). "Mackerel sky, mackerel sky, never long wet and

never long dry." "Mackerel clouds in sky,

expect more wet than dry." "A mackerel sky is as much for wet as 'tis for dry." "Mackerel scales, furl your sails." "A mackerel sky, not twenty-four hours dry." "A mackerel sky denotes fair weather for that day, but rain a day or two after." "Mackerel sky and mares' tails make lofty ships carry low sails." (English). "It is still an article of belief even among educated people that what is called a mackerel sky prognosticates wet. In Scotland they hold the same thing of the clouds when they present three distinct shades. In Carr's Dialect of Craven, 1828, i., 221, it is said that Hen Scrattins are 'small and circular white clouds denoting rain or wind. A friend informs me,' says the writer, 'that it is usual in Devonshire for the people to say, "See mackerel backs and horse-tails," as indicative of rain or wind.'"-C. Carew Hazlitt.

A March wisher is never a good fisher. (English, Scotch). March, when blustering and stormy, is not a good month for fishing.

An evening red and a morning grey, two sure signs of one fair day. (English).

See Matt. xvi : 2, 3.

"An evening grey and a morning red will send a shepherd wet to bed." "Evening grey and morning red make the shepherd hang his head." "Evening grey and morning red, put on your hat or you'll wet your head.' "A red evening and a white morning, rejoice the pilgrim." (English). "A red evening and a grey morning set the pilgrim a-walking.' (Italian). "An evening red and morning grey make the pilgrim sing.' (French). "Evening red and weather fine; morning red, of rains a sign." (German). "The evening red and morning grey are the tokens of a bonnie day." (Scotch). "A red sky in the morning, occasional showers; a red sky in the evening, fine weather is ours." (Welsh). A rainbow in the morn, put your hook in the corn; a rainbow at eve, put your hook in the sheave. (English).

"If the rainbow comes at night, the rain has gone

quite." "A rainbow in the morning is the
shepherd's warning; a rainbow at night is the
shepherd's delight.' (English). This last pro-
verb is sometimes given in the following rhyme:
"The rainbow in the morning
Is the shepherd's warning

To carry his coat on his back;
The rainbow at night

Is the shepherd's delight

For then no coat will he lack."

"Rainbow to windward, foul fall the day; rainbow to leeward, damp runs away." (English). "Rainbows with the new moon, rain until the end." (Welsh). "The rainbow has but a bad character, she ever commands the rain to cease." "If there's a rainbow at eve, it will rain and leave." "The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, for see, a rainbow spans the sky." "When rainbow does not touch water, clear weather will follow." (American). "If the rainbow appears when the rain has just begun, the earth will be filled; if at the end, it is a sign that the rain will stop. (Behar).

"The weather's taking up now

For yonder's the weather gaw;

How bonny is the east now!

Now the colors fade awa'."-Scotch Rhyme.
The weather gaw-i.e. a fragment of a rainbow.

'A weather-gall at morn, fine weather all gone;
A rainbow towards night, fair weather in sight.
Rainbow at night, sailor's delight;

Rainbow in morning, sailors take warning."
English Nautical Rhyme.

"If the partridge sings when the rainbow

Spans the sky,

There is no better sign of wet than when

It isn't dry."

Spanish Rhyme.

At twelfth day, the days are lengthened a cock's stride. (Italian).

"Some say that, if on the twelfth of January the sun shine, it foreshows much wind. Others predict by St. Paul's Day (January 25th), saying