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• #45

  First a daughter, then a son,
  The world is well begun.
  First a son, then a daughter,
  Trouble follows after.

  Maine and Massachusetts.
• #46

  First a son, then a daughter,
  You’ve begun just as you oughter.

  Brookline, Mass.
• #47

  Rock a cradle empty,
  Babies will be plenty.

  Peabody, Mass.
• #48

  Rock the cradle empty,
  Have children a plenty,
  Rock the chair empty,
  Have sickness a plenty.

  Nashua, N. H.
• #49

  To rock the cradle when the baby is not in it will kill it.

  New York.
• #50

  If the empty cradle be rocked, the baby will have the colic.

  New York and Ohio.
• #51

  The first time a baby is taken visiting, if it is laid on a married couple’s bed there will be a baby for that couple.

  Salem, Mass.
• #52

  The mother who gives away all the clothes of her dead baby will eventually be comforted by the coming of another child.

• #53

  However many children a woman may have, the last will be of the same gender as the first, and they will look alike.

  Maine and Massachusetts.
• #54

  One article of an unborn infant’s wardrobe must be left unmade or unbought or the child is liable not to live.

  Salem, Mass.
• #55

  A baby’s nails must not be cut with scissors before it is a year old; it will make it steal.

  North Carolina.
• #56

  To cut a baby’s finger-nails deforms it; if the baby is a month old, to do this will cause the child to have fits.

  Georgia.
• #57

  To allow a child to look into a mirror before it is a month old will cause it trouble in teething.

  Georgia.
• #58

  Tickling a baby causes stuttering.

  Georgia.
• #59

  If an infant be measured, it will die before its growing time is over.

  Georgia.