DUMB PROPHETS.
. The spider is an excellent guide to the weather. Not only is he. extremely sensitive to the state of the atmosphere, but lie takes a keen interest in the habits of flying insects. He knows that they do not go out in the wet. When, therefore, he is ''resting" you may be certain that he is expecting rain. Should he be busy constructing a new web, it is a sign that he is looking forward to a fine spell —and he is generally right. If ducks or geese are expecting bad weather, they dash water I over their backs. They do so to preI vent the first few drops of rain pene- | trating to their bodies through the dry, 1 open feathers. It is a sign that fine weather is to continue when bees wander far from their hives. The screaming of owls in bad weather is a sign that , a change for the better is at
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1932, Page 8
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