Part 14 (2/2)

_Labrador._

326. Place an egg in a tumbler on St. John's Day. The tumbler being half filled with water, an egg is broken into it at early dawn, and it is placed in the window, where it remains untouched till sundown. At that time the broken egg is supposed to have a.s.sumed a special shape, in which the ingenious maiden sees dimly outlined the form of her future lord, or some emblem of his calling.

_Newfoundland._

CHAPTER VI.

LOVE AND MARRIAGE.

ENGAGEMENT.

327. If you are a bridesmaid three times you will never stand in the middle.

_Baldwinsville, N.Y._

328. Three times a bridesmaid, never a bride.

_New England._

329. Don't let another person put on your engagement ring, taken from your finger, or the engagement will be broken.

_Bathurst, N.B._

330. The mother-in-law's test of the incoming daughter-in-law is to place a broom on the floor. If the daughter removes it and places it on one side, she will be a good housewife; if she steps over it, she will be a bad housewife.

_Labrador._

331. A girl will have as many children after marriage as she has ”holders” given her before marriage.

_Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts._

ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE.

332. If you try on your wedding dress before the ceremony, you will not be happy.

_Cambridge, Ma.s.s._

333. The bride should wear a borrowed garter, and also a yellow garter.

_Boston, Ma.s.s._

334. If a bride wear a yellow garter tied on by a girl friend, the latter will be married inside the year.

_Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts._

335. The bride should wear

Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, And something blue.

_Very common._

336. Wear no black at a wedding; it foretells ill luck.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

337. To be married in a brown dress is good luck; black is bad.

_Bathurst, N.B._

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