Never look after a friend who is leaving you till he is quite out of sight, or you will never see him or her again; but turn your eyes away while he is still visible, that he or she may return.
General in the United States.
Superstition #1304
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1304.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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