_Ohio._
1307. If you bite your finger-nails you will always be poor.
_Massachusetts._
1308. If you sleep with your head towards the north, it will prevent
sickness.
_General in the United States._
1309. If you can cut a pie fair and true, you'll have a likely husband.
If you make the slices uneven, he'll be crooked.
1310. If you make a bed handsomely, you'll have a handsome husband.
1311. If you cut pie straight, you will go to housekeeping.
If you cut pie crooked, you will have no house to keep.
_New Hampshire._
1312. If you make a rhyme involuntarily, you will have a present.
_New Brunswick._
1313. The free use of salt is a sign of having a temper.
_Lynn, Mass._
1314. To say anything backward is a sign you will get a present.
_Peabody, Mass._
1315. If you sing before you eat,
You'll cry before you sleep.
_Ohio and Iowa._
1316. If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before supper.
_Cambridge, Mass._
1317. If you laugh before breakfast, you will cry before supper.
_Prince Edward Island and Somerville, Mass._
1318. Little birds that sing in the morning
The old cat will catch before night.
Accustomed to be said to children when they were especially hilarious in
the early morning.
_Northern Ohio._
1319. If a child sing before breakfast, it will get a whipping before
night.
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