Of stockings:—
Wear at the toe,
Spend as you go:
Wear at the heel,
Spend a good deal;
Wear at the ball,
You’ll live to spend all.
South Carolina.
Superstition #1401
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1401.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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