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Superstition #167

Similar rhymes commonly repeated in northern Ohio, after naming an apple and counting the seeds, are,—

One I love,
Two I love,
Three I love, I say.
Four I love with all my heart,
And five I cast away.
Six he loves,
Seven she loves,
Eight they both love.
Nine he comes,
Ten he tarries,
Eleven he courts,
And twelve he marries.

Prince Edward Island and Mansfield, O.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 167.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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