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A drawing of a four-leaf clover

Company
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If you drop the scissors, and they stick up in the floor, it is a sign you are going to have company.

Drop a fork, and if it sticks up in the floor or ground, it is a sign you will have a lady visitor from the direction in which it points. If a knife is dropped and sticks up, a man visitor is coming from the direction in which it points.

“There’s no end to these little signs, There’s signs for everything.”

When a bumblebee flies in at an open window, look for company soon,

If a visitor leaves any article behind when he goes, it is a sign that he is coming again. Few sayings come true as often as this. The sceptical, however, affirm that natural causes are sufficient to account for the fact.

If the cat in washing its ear rubs its paw way over it, that is a sign of company.

If you knock over the pepper-box,

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