Thursday, December 25, 2008

An old Dutch saying is . . .

. . . “a green Christmas foretells a white Easter.” Which means that if there is no snow in Christmas there will be on Easter. If that rule is correct we may look for a good sleighing about the first week in April, for Christmas was the “greenest kind,” this time.

– Published in the Stark County News, Toulon, Illinois, January 1, 1863

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