July

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots, and gillyflowers.
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In July,
Some reap rye;
In August,
If one will not the other must.
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Those who in July are wed,
Must labor for their daily bread.
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Knee high
By the Fourth of July.
(Rule applied to corn to see if it's a good crop.)
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St. Swithin's* day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
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If you plant turnips on the twenty-fifth of July,
You will have turnips, wet or dry.


*July 15.