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neatly without locking in the glass, it is a sign she won’t be an old maid.
Wear a bit of yarrow in your button-hole, if you are anxious to know whom you are to marry. The first person of the opposite sex you meet afterward is your fate.
A girl tickles another on the knee and says,—
Tickle, tickle on the knee,
Laugh or smile, an old maid you’ll be.
If a laugh or smile results, then both know the tickled one will be an old maid always.
When this is tried on a boy, you have to insert the word bachelor in the place of maid in the rhyme.
A variation of this theme is the following:—
If you're an honest boy (or girl),
As I take you to be,
You'll neither laugh nor smile
While I tickle your knee.
If a girl has thirteen after-dinner coffee cups given to her within a twelve month, she will be engaged within the year following. To bring about this
