WALKING ABROAD

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• #276

  Go to walk and turn back. The first man you meet you’ll marry.

  Massachusetts.
• #277

  If you walk the length of seven rails of a railroad track, the first man that speaks to you after you get off will be your future husband.

  Bedford, Mass.
• #278

  Take a looking-glass and walk backwards to the wall, and you will see your future husband’s picture.

  Nashua, N. H.
• #279

  If you walk with a gentleman (for the first time), and have on new shoes and go over a bridge, you will marry him.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #280

  If a young woman walking into a strange place picks up three pebbles and puts them under her pillow, she will marry the young man she dreams of.

  Carbonear, N. F.
• #281

  Run three times around the house, and on the third round a vision of your husband will rise before you.

  Alabama.