Part 47 (2/2)
_Pennsylvania._
1335. Whistling girls and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends.
_General in the United States._
1336. Whistling girls and sheep Are the very worst cattle a farmer can keep.
1337. A whistling girl and a laughing sheep, Are the very best property a man can keep.
_Northern Ohio._
1338. Girls that whistle and hens that crow Make their way wherever they go.
1339. Whistle before you eat, Cry before you sleep.
_Baldwinsville, N.Y._
BODILY AFFECTIONS.
1340. If the right cheek burns, some one is speaking well of you; if the left, they are speaking ill of you; if both, they speak well and ill at once. Moisten the finger in the mouth and touch it to the cheek, naming those whom you suspect; the one at whose name it grows cool was speaking of you.
_New Brunswick._
1341. If your right ear burns, some one is talking well of you; if your left, he is talking ill.
_General in the United States._
1342. If you bite the corner of your ap.r.o.n, you will make back-biters bite their tongues.
_Pennsylvania._
1343. Pinch your ear, and the person talking of you will bite his own tongue.
1344. If the right ear burns, it is a sign that some one is thinking well of you; if the left ear burns, it is a sign that some one is thinking unkindly of you; but if both ears burn, friend and foe are fighting about you.
_Pennsylvania._
1345. If your ears burn, people are talking well of you; if your ears are cold, the contrary.
_New Hamps.h.i.+re._
1346. If your right ear burns, a lady is speaking of you; if the left, a man.
_Maine and Pennsylvania._
1347. If your left ear itches, some one is saying unpleasant things about you; but if your right ear, pleasant things. Some say,--
Both left and right Are good at night.
_Cambridge, Ma.s.s._
1348. If the right eye itches, it is a sign you will cry; if the left, you will laugh, because R stands for ”roar” and L for ”laugh.”
_Baldwinsville, N.Y._
1349. If the right eye itches, you'll laugh; if the left eye, you'll cry.
_Boston, Ma.s.s._
1350. If your eye itches, some one wants to see you and can't.
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