Folk-Lore From Adams County Illinois (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Folk-Lore From Adams County, IllinoisA person With rheumatism Will have rheumatic pains before a rain When I was a boy, a German teacher (in a Quincy parochial school) asked, 'where do you get the rains?' A boy got up and said, 'from grandma's bones, because every time grand ma's bones ache, it rains'.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.