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Barbara Burke in the New* ^ office and Clara Updike of Washington said that you always see redbirds right > before a snow or a change in the weather. “Now, this is a u very good sign for snow,” } Mrs. Updike said. *
Mr. Weaver said that his • father had a way to tell about 11 the winter from the insides of I a hog. "When we butchered I hogs around Thanksgiving, I there was a part that the old- 1 timers called the melt - I | don’t know what it’s called now. Anyway, if the big part was in front, then the worst I weather would be in early winter. If the bigger part were behind, then the bad a weather would be late in the season.” 1
Other animal signs predict a cold winter if: 4
—muskrat houses are built I big: " —the north side of a beaver dam has more sticks < than the south; I —squirrels’ tails are < bushier; and ,
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