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Luck  91

ing toward you, he will bring you good luck.

If you trip up on something, it is a sign of bad luck, The best thing for you to do in such a case is to go back and walk it over.

If it is a stone you have fallen over, go back and touch it.

When a ring on the finger has been wished on, or was placed there by some one else, it will bring bad luck if you allow it to be removed.

If, when you start on a journey, you forget something and have to return, sit down before you again start, or the journey will be unlucky.

If you put on your apron wrong side out, wear it so, or in making the change you will change your luck. This applies as well to the putting on of a stocking wrong side out, or any other article of apparel.

Some say that it is safe to right the garment if you take pains to ward off the impending woe by spitting on the garment. To do this genteelly, you need only to moisten the finger-tip with the tongue, and touch the wrong garment. Then you can turn the garment again and no harm will result.