Fortune-Telling 51
you will wear, you say, “Gold, silver, diamond, brass.”
Instead of buttons you can, in this fortune-telling, pull the petals off from a daisy, or the fronds one by one from a fern.
Children can tell the time of day by “dandelion clocks.” Take a white-headed dandelion, blow it three times, and the number of seeds that still cling indicate the hour.
birthday fortunes.
Monday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday’s child is sorry and sad,
Thursday’s child is merry and glad,
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
And Saturday’s child must work for a living;
But the child that is born on the Sabbath Day,
Is bonny and merry and glad and gay.
A rather more vigorous version is the following:—
Born on a Monday, fair of face;
Born on a ‘Tuesday, full of God’s grace;
Born on a Wednesday, merry and glad;
