A well-known children’s rhyme runs:—
Blue-eye beauty, do your mammy’s duty!
Black eye, pick a pie,
Run around and tell a lie!
Gray-eye greedy gut
Eat all the world up!
General in the United States.
Superstition #111
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 111.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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