Or, as other versions have it, "Come again on washing-day." The appearance of a rainbow is generally, too, the signal for various marks of dissatisfaction on the part of the young, who, besides entreating it to vanish as soon as possible, frequently try to charm it away. This they do by placing a couple of straws or twigs crossways on the ground, and so, to quote their phrase, "cross out the rainbow." Another way is to make a cross of two sticks, and to lay four pebbles on it, one at each end. Again, some of the rhymes relating to snow are highly quaint, the following being repeated when it makes its first appearance:-- "The men of the East Are picking their geese, And sending their feathers here away, here away." When, however, boys wish the snow to go away, they sing:-- "Snow, snow, give over, The cow's in the clover." Thunder, in the North of England, is called by children "Rattley-bags," and during a storm the boys are in the habit of singing:-- "Rowley, Rowley, Rattley-bags, Take the lasses and leave the lads." There is a rhyme which is often repeated by the juvenile folks in the north and midland counties upon seeing the new moon, which, perhaps, may have an indirect allusion to its supposed lucky influence:-- "I see the moon and the moon sees me, God help the parson that baptised me!"-- containing, evidently, a congratulation upon their birth. Boys, too, have a curious saying respecting the reflection of the sun's beams upon a ceiling, which they term "Jack-a-dandy beating his wife with a stick of silver." If a mischievous boy, with a piece of looking-glass, throws the reflection into the eyes of a neighbour, the latter complains "he's throwing Jack-a-dandy in my eyes." Passing on to other charm-rhymes connected with natural objects, there are a very numerous class relating to the animal creation. In evening-time, for instance, when the dew begins to fall, boys are fond of hunting the large black snails, on discovering which they exclaim:-- "Snail, snail, put out your horn, Or I'll kill your father and mother i' th' morn." This charm, however, is not confined to our own country, but under a variety of forms is found on the Continent. In Scotland, too, children prognosticate the coming weather from the movements of this little creature:-- "Snailie, snailie, shoot out your horn, And tell us if it will be a bonny day the morn."