THE MOON "LYING ON HER BACK."
[To THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, though a little late, reply to the letter of your correspondent?
From midwinter up to May he may observe that the moon, "a few days old," is in a more northern position in the heavens than the sun (just gone down), and seeing that the points of the moon's horns are invariably equidistant from the sun, she appears more or leas "lying on her back." In the fall of the year the reverse takes place, and she appears almost upright. In the case of the old horned moon the con- ditions are the opposite. She "sits up" in the spring and " lies down " in the autumn. It must be obvious that the notion of any connexion with weather, past or future, is pure
superstition.—I am, Sir, &c., Freer 1) lVI Clonard, Ewan, Co. Dublin.
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