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• #94

  When a child loses a tooth, if the tongue is not put into the cavity a gold tooth will come in place of it.

  New York and Northern Ohio.
• #95

  The ideas of children about the significance of color are mixed. Thus in croquet no child (in a town near Boston) would take the red ball, because it was supposed to mean hate. Blue is the favorite color.

• #96

  Red and yellow, catch a fellow. Brookline, Mass.
  Pink and blue, he’ll catch you. Deerfield, Mass.
  Pink and blue, he’ll be true. Deerfield, Mass.
  Black and white, hold him tight. Pennsylvania.

• #97

  An old superstition which still survives among children is, that if they crawl over an older person and do not crawl back they will never grow again.

  Haverhill, Mass.
• #98

  “We used always as children to get X’s scored with a pin on our new ‘village gaiters.’ We were told it was to make them safe and take the slipperiness off.”

  Brookline, Mass.
• #99

  Children say that the one who takes the first bite of an apple that is to be passed about for eating will fail in his or her lesson.

  Chelsea, Mass.
• #100

  Boys believe that they can prevent the stitch in the side which is liable to be induced by running, by means of holding a pebble under the tongue. “I believe I could run all day, and not get tired, if I could hold a pebble under my tongue,” said one.

  Cambridge, Mass.