JUNE hath 30 days PORTENTS, SIGNS AND OMENS WHEN Infant Grundy rises like the Sickle The dying Grundy will her nothing stickle, But wane upon this World of Odds and Omen, The newer Prudy waxing for the Women, For to a Woman shall a Woman stoop When she had birched them well about the Coop, And nowhere else, as they have done ere this; No Man shall nip them, and no Boy shall kiss, No Lad shall hoist them gaily Heels o'er Head Nor lay them 'twixt his Breast-bone and his Bed. Nor flay them with sweet Portent and with Sign. Nor reap their Image tiny in this Eyen. Nay, this shall never be their earthly Cost But, all unlike the Bird of Memory lost, Late roosting on the Hollow tree of Time, Which only backward can the Scaler climb, They by themselves mislaid shall be, God wot, Binding this Nonsense to a finer Knot, Casting to the Winds all common Care Like a Bell that throws its Nature to the Air. Of such is then the high and gaming Pride Of Woman by a Woman's girlish Side! * THE FOURTH GREAT MOMENT OF HISTORY IN the time of Heat, when the Flowers bloom and the Birds sing and the Squirrels burn, and Man turns inside out for Love, Dame Musset, like many a Dandy with his Candytufts of Hope and his Gallipots of Love, or like a Grig of a Rip with his Foxglove and Fustian, had also an Eye when she went out for a Walk. The Luxembourg boasted no Hedge or Statue that had proportions or density sufficient to make Hide of a Petticoat, for Musset knew them to a Turn and a Twig. Therefore she was no little surprised when one mellow Sunday, she in walking out with Doll on her Arm (Musset deeming indeed that she had managed most neatly this matter of Bushes and Nooks), heard Doll going about it thus: "My Most Darling, but now has come the Time when you must listen to the fourth great Moment of History (having undoubtedly heard the other three), which is of Sheba and Jezebel. So though I be neither Sheba nor you good Jezebel, we are exactly lesser, so but give Ear. "Jezebel, that flighty forthright, used to spend much of her Time in angling from her Window and crying 'Uoo Hoo!' to the Kings that way wending to War and to Death. And some turned in at her Door, and others went on, though not a many 'tis true. Thus was Jezebel employed, when the Queen of Sheba passed beneath her Window, and Jezebel leaning outward called 'Uoo Hooo!' "And that was Jezebel's last 'Uoo Hoo!' Musset's Eyes fell.