COUNTING

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• #199

  Count sixty white horses and one white mule, then you will marry the first man with whom you shake hands.

  Chestertown, Md.
• #200

  Count a hundred white horses and two white mules, and the first person you shake hands with you’ll marry.

  Pennsylvania.
• #201

  Count a hundred white horses during leap year. The first man that shakes hands with you after you have your hundred will be your future husband.

  Bedford, Mass.
• #202

  Count one hundred gray horses (one mule stands for ten horses), and the first gentleman with whom you shake hands is your intended.

  Alabama.
• #203

  After meeting ninety-nine white horses and a brown one for the hundredth, the first person with whom you shake hands will be your future mate.

  Newport, R. I.
• #204

  Count five hundred colored people, and the next gentleman you meet you will marry.

  Cambridge, Mass.
• #205

  Count ninety-nine negroes and one white horse, and the first boy you answer “yes” or “no” to you will marry.

  South Boston, Mass.
• #206

  Count forty white horses, the first man you meet afterwards you’ll marry.

  Champaign, Ill.
• #207

  In crossing a bridge, if one sees two white horses on it (in different teams) and wishes at once for a man to marry her, she’ll get him.

  Peabody, Mass.
• #208

  Count a hundred “tips” (a bow with the lifting of the hat). The hundredth will be your future husband.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #209

  Count the buttons of an old boot. The number of buttons indicates the number of years before marriage.

  Massachusetts.
• #210

  If you count the boards of the ceiling (loft) in a strange room before going to sleep, you will dream of your lover.

  Newfoundland.