"The hollow winds begin to blow, The clouds look black, the glass is low, The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs creep. Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head, The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For see! a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell; Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack; Old Betty's joints are on the rack. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine!-- The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings; The cricket, too, how loud it sings! Puss, on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits smoothing o'er her whisker'd jaws. Through the clear stream the fishes rise And nimbly catch the incautious flies; The sheep were seen, at early light, Cropping the meads with eager bite. Though _June_, the air is cold and chill; The mellow blackbird's voice is still; The glow-worms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night; At dusk the squalid toad was seen, Hopping, crawling, o'er the green. The frog has lost his yellow vest, And in a dingy suit is dress'd. The leech, disturbed, is newly risen Quite to the summit of his prison. The whirling wind the dust obey And in the rapid eddy plays. My dog, so altered in his taste, Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast; And see yon rooks, how odd their flight! They imitate the gliding kite: Or seem precipitate to fall, As if they felt the piercing ball. 'Twill surely rain; I see, with sorrow, Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow." Howard attributes the foregoing to Jenner; but Hone, in his "Every-Day Book," attributes it to Darwin, and gives it, with several couplets, not found in that attributed to Jenner. These I add from Hone, as follows: "Her corns with shooting pains torment her-- And to her bed untimely send her." That couplet is included by Hone with what is said of Aunt Betty. "The smoke from chimneys right ascends, Then spreading back to earth it bends. The wind unsteady veers around; Or, settling in the south is found." Those are as philosophically accurate and valuable as any. "The tender colts on back do lie; Nor heed the traveler passing by. In fiery red the sun doth rise, Then wades through clouds to mount the skies." The first of those couplets is untrue. It is doubtless alluded to as one of the acts of the animal creation, indicating sleepiness and inaction, which precede storms; but colts do not lie on the back. The other couplet is both true and important. This collection entire, whether written by Darwin or Jenner, contains most of the signs which have been preserved, and which are of much practical importance in our climate.