THE SUN DANCING ON EASTER DAY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,—Folk-lore dies out fast ; let us cherish what little remains. It is still firmly believed in Lincolnshire that the sun dances on Easter Day in honour of our Lord's resurrection. Having heard that my gardener (as honest and excellent a Lincolnshire- man as is to be found) had looked out for the phenomenon and seen it this year, I interviewed him thus : —" Well, John, hear you had a grand view of the sun yesterday; I have often heard it said that it dances on Easter Day, but never met with any one who bad really seen it." " Aa, Sir, it was the grandest sight as ever I see in my life. It kep' on the dance for nigh on half-an-hour, dancin' an' turnin' round all the time. Nobody couldn't form no idea as hadn't seen it. It was- like as if it had cogwheels all round it, and it kep' dartin' out, dartin' out light it did. It was most like that thing in the Menagic Lantern as keeps turning round. I've been very anshus to get a sketch [view] on it ever sin' my mother told me, an' she's been dead this fourteen year. I seed milkman. a. goin' past, an' I calls out, Look at that there sun!' ' Bless my life,' he says, 'I never see nowt like it.' Then I goes an' calls up MI s. — an' Mary — to look at it. The sun rose bright this morning, but as! it was as different as it could be."
Such is faithful John's story. I am certain, from his manner of telling it, that he did see something unlike any other sunrise he ever saw; and he sees it every day. It would be interesting to know whether there was any actual phenomenon observable, which would account for his being impressed as he was with a deep feeling of mystery and wonder.—I am, Sir, &c., C. E. C.
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