Your true love will appear.
_Winn, Me._
247. Set the table in silence for two at eleven o'clock P.M., with bread
and butter and silver knives and forks. Two girls sit down at twelve, and
say, "Whoever my true love may be, come and eat this supper with me."
_Winn, Me._
PLANTS.
248. Take beans in the hand, go out of doors and throw them against the
window. The first man's name that you hear spoken is the name of the man
you will marry.
_Connecticut._
249. Put three raw beans in your mouth, go out of doors, stand in front
of some one's window and listen. The first man's name you hear spoken
will be either that of your future husband or of the one having the same
name.
_Salem, Mass._
250. If a piece of brush or brier sticks to the dress, name it. If it
drops, the lover is false; if it sticks, he is true.
_Northern Ohio._
251. Blow seeds from the dandelion until none remain, counting each puff
as a letter of the alphabet; the letter which ends the blowing is the
initial of the name of the person the blower marries.
252. Rub your hands in sweet fern. The first one you shake hands with
afterward is your true love.
_Prince Edward Island._
253. Wear a piece of fern in the toe of your shoe, and the first person
you meet you will marry.
_New Hampshire._
254. Take a live-forever leaf, squeeze it to loosen the inner and outer
skin. If it makes a balloon as you blow into it, you will be married and
live a long time.
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