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• #290

  On accidentally making two lines rhyme, kiss your hand, and you will be so fortunate as to see your lover before nine that night.

  Alabama.
• #291

  Put a looking-glass under the pillow, and you will dream of your lover.

  Green Harbor, N.F.
• #292

  Tie a true lover’s knot (of shavings) and place it under the pillow. You will dream of your lover, even if at that time he is unknown to you.

  Newfoundland.
• #293

  Steal a salt herring from a grocery store, eat it, don’t speak after eating, and the first man you dream of will marry you.

• #294

  Make a little ladder of sticks, place it under the head at night, and you’ll dream of your future husband.

  Patten, Me.
• #295

  Swallow a chicken’s heart whole, and the first man you kiss afterwards will be your future husband.

  Winn, Me.
• #296

  Take three grains of coffee, put one notch on one, two on another, put them in a glass of water under your bed, and name them. The one that sprouts is the one you are going to marry.

  Alabama.
• #297

  Light a match, and the way the flame goes shows where your future husband lives.

  Bedford, Mass.
• #298

  Stand two matches on a hot stove, sulphur end down, and name them for yourself and a marriageable acquaintance of the opposite sex. If both stand or fall together, it is a sign that you will live and die together. If one fall, it is a sign that one will leave the other.

  Cape Breton.
• #299

  Go out in spring and turn up a brick on the ground, and look under it at the clay. The color of the clay denotes the color of the hair of your future husband.

  Chestertown, Md.
• #300

  Cut your finger-nails nine Sundays in succession, and your sweetheart will dine with you.

  Alabama.
• #301

  Throw a ball of yarn into an unoccupied house, and holding the end of the yarn, wind, saying, “I wind and who holds?” The one who is to be your future wife or husband will be seen in the house.

  Ohio.
• #302

  Take a hair from your head. Have some one else take one from his, cross them, and rub them over each other, and the last thing you say before one breaks will be the first thing said after you are married.

  Cambridge, Mass.