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• #185

  When you see a turkey-buzzard flying alone, repeat,—

  Hail! Hail! Lonely, lonesome turkey-buzzard:
  Hail to the East, hail to the West,
  Hail to the one that I love best.
  Let me know by the flap of your wing
  Whether he (or she) loves me or not.

  Note the manner of the bird’s flight: if he flaps his wings your lover is true; if not, the lover is false.

  Tennessee.
• #186

  When the call of the first turtle-dove is heard, sit down and remove the shoe and stocking from the left foot, turn the stocking inside out, in the heel of which if a hair is found, it will be of the color of the hair of the future husband or wife.

  In Mt. Desert, Maine, and Prince Edward Island the same project is tried on hearing the first robin.

  Tennessee.