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vaoid them, denotes anger from enemies. To dream you see your deceased brothers or sisters, signifies long life. To dream you are shooting in a bow, signifies honour and preferment. To dream you manage business of great concernment, signifies obstruction. To dream you are making candles, signifies great rejoicing. To dream you are going to hear divine service, signifies consolation. To dream you build a church or erect an altar, signifies some of your family will become a priest. To dream you see yourself sitting or lying in a chinch, signifies change of apparel. To dream you are playing with dogs, is a very good sign.

Signs of fair Weather.

THE sun rising bright and clear, if he drive clouds before him into the west. If at the rising there appears a circle about him, and it vanisheth equally away. If the sun be red. If the moon be clear three days after the change, or three days before the full. If the clouds appear with yellow edges. A cloudy sky clearing against the wind. The rainbow after rain appearing meanly red. Mists coming down from the hills and setting in the valleys, or white mists rising from the waters in the evening. Crows or ravens graping against the sun. Beetles flying in the evening. Bats flying abroad sooner than ordinary. Many flies or gnats playing to the sunshine at evening.

Signs of Rain.

IF the sun be fiery and red at his rising. It he shows pale and wan. If red and black clouds be about him at his rising. If the moon, three or four days after the change is blunt at both ends, the thicker the more. A circle about the moon. It the great stars be only seen, and they look only dim. I be rainbow appealing in a fair day, the greater it is the