5 FEBRUARY 1921, Page 13

THE MOON "LYING ON HER BACK."

[To THE Eoirou or THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—With reference to " the moon on her back," I know that in Derbyshire it used to be said, " When the moon is like a boat, there will soon be water to float it." The North American Indians held the same belief, for one of their legends was that when the Indians could hang a powder flask

on each horn of the moon they knew that rain would stop their