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1399. Wear at the toe, live to see woe;
Wear at the side, live to be a bride;
Wear at the ball, live to spend all;
Wear at the heel, live to save a deal.
_New York._
1400. Wear on the toe,
Spend as you go;
Wear on the ball,
Love to spend all.
Wear on the side,
You'll be a rich bride.
1401. Of stockings:--
Wear at the toe,
Spend as you go:
Wear at the heel,
Spend a good deal;
Wear at the ball,
You'll live to spend all.
_South Carolina._
CUSTOMS.
1402. Halloween cabbages are pulled and thrown against the owner's door
as a reminder of his laziness.
_Southern Pennsylvania and Ohio._
1403. Shelled corn is thrown at every one--the significance not known.
_Southern Pennsylvania._
1404. If a man is insulted and means to be revenged, he will bare his arm
and cut a cross in it with his knife, called a "vengeance mark."
_Mountains of North Carolina._
1405. If you wash your face in dew before sunrise on May Day, you will
become very beautiful.
_Alabama._
1406. Dry spots, where there is no dew, are called "fairy rings."
_Salem, Mass._
1407. Run round a fairy ring twice on Easter Sunday morning, and fairies
will arise and follow you.
_Salem, Mass._
1408. The looking-glass is often turned with the face to the wall, or
taken out of the room during a thunder-storm, because "quick-silver is so
bad to draw the lightning.
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