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Superstition #183

Read the third verse of the third chapter of Hosea, Joel, and Amos for three Sundays in succession, and the first gentleman you walk with you will marry.

Nashua, N. H.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 183.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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