A great many school-teachers and rambunctious butters-in are born under that sign." We applauded the wonderful penetration of our astrologer and he ran on, "Then the whole heaven turns into a bull-calf and the kickers and herdsmen and those who see to it that their own bellies are full, come into the world.

Teams of horses and oxen are born under the Twins, and well-hung wenchers and those who bedung both sides of the wall.

I was born under the Crab and therefore stand on many legs and own much property on land and sea, for the crab is as much at home on one as he is in the other.

For that reason, I put nothing on that sign for fear of weighing down my own destiny.

Bulldozers and gluttons are born under the Lion, and women and fugitives and chain-gangs are born under the Virgin.
Butchers and perfumers are born under the Balance, and all who think that it is their business to straighten things out.