124 Love and Sentiment
“Why a girl is sure to marry the first man she shakes hands with after counting ninety-nine white horses, even if he is eighty years old.”
The modern girl, particularly if she lives in the city, has it that after counting the requisite number of white horses, she is to note the first person who tips his hat to her. He is her fate.
If three of the same first name sit at table together, one of them will marry within a year.
As long as you keep a piece of wedding-cake in the house, you will have good luck.
Crock mark,
Sign of a spark.
Nearer the thumb,
Sooner he’ll come.
On Halloween hang up a cabbage-stump over the door. The first person of the opposite sex that comes in is the one you will marry.
Children sometimes try this process to determine whom they like best. Suppose it is a boy who is to make the trial. He gets a companion to name two apple-seeds. Then he takes the apple-seeds, wets them, puts one on the upper
