This section is from the book "The Corner Cupboard; Or, Facts For Everybody", by Robert Kemp Philp. Also available from Amazon: The Corner Cupboard; or Facts for Everybody.
Curious Calendar. By counting the knuckles on the hand, with the spaces between them, all the months with thirty-one days will fall on the knuckles, and those containing thirty days or less will come in the spaces. For instance : January, first knuckle, February, first space ; March,second knuckle, April, second space ; May, third knuckle, June, third space; July, fourth knuckle, August, first knuckle, September, first space ; October, second knuckle, November, second space ; December third knuckle. In going from one hand to the other count no space.
 
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